132 LECTURE X. 



The Ancient Romans, as appears from several 

 passages in their writings, made use of the juice of 

 the Cuttle-Fish by way of an ink, but they seem 

 to have been unacquainted with any other mode 

 of preparing it than that of merely mixing or dis- 

 solving it in water. The female Cuttle-Fish 

 deposits its eggs in numerous clusters, on the 

 stalks of fuci, on corals, about the projecting sides 

 of rocks, or on any other convenient substances. 

 These eggs, which are of the size of small filberds, 

 and of a black colour, are popularly known by the 

 name of sea- grapes: each individual egg is of an 

 oval shape, but with a somewhat sharpened point; 

 the young proceeds from it complete in all its parts, 

 and differing from the parent animal in no other 

 respect than that of size. 



The Calamary^ Loligo, Pen-Fish, or Ink- Fish, 

 is a species scarcely less remarkable than the pre- 

 ceding. It is of a much more lengthened shape, 

 of a darker colour, and with the two long additional 

 arms of greater length in proportion; and on each 

 side the tail is an expansion or process, forming a 

 kind of short triangular fnu This animal is also 

 an inhabitant of the European seas, but is less 

 common than the Cuttlefish. It has the same 



