Kachgaria is Oriental Turkestan which is gradually being metamorphosed into Russian Turkestan.

He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe; but even this was singularly metamorphosed.

In "Smith's New Grammar on the Productive System," a work in which Murray is largely copied and strangely metamorphosed, there is an abundance of such confusion.

A MERE indigestion can temporarily metamorphose the character.