$$8 THE COMMON SEA-URCHIN 



this country, but does not seem to have made its 

 way to the tables of the opulent. The Romans 

 adopted it, and dressed it with vinegar, mead, pars- 

 ley, and mint *. 



* Shaw's Nat. Mis. vii. tab. zit,. Bnrbut's Gen. Verm. p. 90. ■ ■ 

 Sloans, ii. 267.— — Penn. Brit. Zbol. iv. p. 68, 



