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being often seen with limbs which have evidently 

 been mutilated, and have reproduced. 



The Eight- Armed and common Cuttle- Fish are 

 numbered among the edible marine animals, and 

 are still used in many parts of Europe as a food. 

 With the Romans they seem to have been consi- 

 dered as a delicacy. When boiled, they assume a 

 red or deep salmon-colour, especially when salted. 

 The Greeks as well as the Romans are known to 

 have been in the habit of using the Cuttle as a 

 food, and it has been supposed, and surely not 

 without a considerable degree of probability, that 

 the celebrated plain, but wholesome dish, the 

 black broth of Sparta, was no other than a kind 

 of Cuttle-Fish soup, in which the black liquor of 

 the animal was always added as an ingredient $ 

 being, when recent, of a very agreeable taste. 



Mr. Pennant, in the fourth volume of his Bri- 

 tish Zoology, speaking of the Eight-armed Cuttle, 

 tells us, he has been well assured from persons 

 worthy of credit, that in the Indian seas this spe- 

 cies has been found of such a size as to measure 

 two fathoms in breadth across the central part, 

 while each arm has measured nine fathoms in 



