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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, oh 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 Calamarijy 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 fm. This animal is also 
an inhabitant of the European seas, but is less 
common than the Cuttle-Fish, It has the same 
