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I remember of first discovering them on May 1827.  The appearance of them then according to my recollection was with very little difference as now They were of a light yellow transparent color - were numerous - and varying in their appearance - I could discover the appearance of waves-. They were probably there before for I recollect of having seen what I mistook for flies or dust upon my nose

The same group appears larger or smaller at different times and the fibres as magnified from this size [[image -eye nearly shut]] to this [[image]] according to the light in which they are seen. They appear smallest in a clear cool atmosphere and largest in a smoky or a dull rainy day- There is one very clear in the right of the right eye apparently attached rather to high for a discerning view. It shape and size thus [[image]] Sometimes they are all confused in an unintelligable and undelineable mass 

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My eyes are full-scarcely one clear spot the round specks by the thousands are now about the same size as formerly say from [[image]] one disconnected span thus [[image]] On the longest days disappear about 8 oclock. I have observed that I cannot see so distinctly by considerable with the right eye as with the left. I can find no cause