Class VI. SEPIA. CUTTLE, 119 



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 

 clay. Athenc£us\ also leaves us the method of 

 making an antique Cuttle-fish sausage ; and we 

 learn from Aristotle, J that those animals are ir* 

 highest season, when pregnant. 



* Be Pise. 510. f Lib. vii. p. 326. 



% Lib. viii. c. 30. Hist. An. 



