Class VI. SEPIA. CUTTLE. tig 



This animal was esteemed a delicacy by the 

 antients ; and is eaten even at present by the 

 Italians. Rondeletius gives us two receipts for 

 the dressing,* which may be continued to this 

 day. Athen(£us'\ also leaves us the method of 

 making an antique Cuttle-fish sausage ; and we 

 learn from Aristotle,'^ that those animals are in 

 highest season, when pregnant. 



* De Pise. 510. t Lib. vii. p. 326. 



I Lib. viii. c. 30. Hist. An. . " 



