t it out of my pocket; and when this was
done, I found that I could not tell the face from the back. The whole
thing was hazy and indistinct, and I can only describe it as looking like
an orange seen through a mist. Such sight as remained rapidly became all
confusion as regarded the form, colour, and proportion of objects. Again
and again I thought I saw before me trees and enclosures, but these, when
I came up to them, invariably turned out to be only portions of gorse
bushes projecting through the snow. My optical delusions as to _colour_
were perhaps the most remarkable; the protruding rocks invariably
appeared of a strange orange yellow, with black lines along them,
producing a short of tortoise-shell effect. I took these mysterious
appearances at first for dead animals, ponies or sheep, and touched them
to try to ascertain the fact. My hands, however, were so utterly devoid
of sensation, that they were of no more use than my eyes in identifying
objects. I was therefore quite in the dark as to their nature, till
experience proved them to be rocks with tufts of heather on them. Owing
to my failing eyesight, my falls became very frequent, and several of
them were from heights so great that it would scarcely be believed were I
to attempt to describe them. I may, however, say, that they were such as
perfectly to appal those who, a few days afterwards, visited the spots
where they occurred, and saw the deep impressions in the snow where I had
plunged into it from the rocks above. One fall especially I well
remember. I had just crossed the ridge of a hill, and saw, as I
imagined, close below me a pool covered with ice, which seemed free from
snow. I thought I would walk across this, and, accordingly, made a
slight jump from the rock on which I stood in order to reach it. In a
moment, however, I discovered that, instead of on to a pool, I had jumped
into empty space. I must have fallen on this occasion a considerable
distance, but I was caught in a deep snow-drift, so that, although
considerably shaken and bewildered for the moment by what had happened, I
was not seriously hurt.

I have been enabled by various circumstances, and by the help of those
who followed my tracks before the snow melted, to make out with tolerable
accuracy the course of my wanderings. Those who tracked me say that, "If
there was one part of the hill more difficult and dangerous than another,
that is the line which Mr. Carr took." Whe