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LECTURE X. 
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 3 
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 
