Cuttle-fish wholesome . 
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For, when she sees her selfe within the net, 
And no way left, hut one from thence to get. 
She suddenly a certaine ink doth spew. 
Which dyes the waters of a sable hew ; 
That, dazling so the fishers greedy sight, 
She through the clouds of the black waters night 
Might scape with honour the black streams of Styx, 
Whereof already, almost lost, she licks.” 
(Page 41.) 
It is hardly necessary to point out the glaring absur¬ 
dities of which this author is guilty throughout his poem 
on the Creation. He delights to describe the various 
stratagems by which the different creatures escape from 
snares spread for them by another creature not yet called 
into existence. 
Bacon observes:— 
“ It is somewhat strange that the blood of all beasts and birds and 
fishes should be of a red colour, and only the blood of the cuttle should 
be as black as ink. The cuttle,” he adds, “ is accounted a delicate 
meat, and is much in request.” 
The Calamary, or Squid, often called the Sea-arrow, 
or Flying-squid, was, and still is, extensively used as a 
bait by the fishermen of Newfoundland. The body of 
the common squid is not unlike an old-fashioned ink- 
horn, whence the name calamar. Two long, slender 
tentacles suggest the idea of pens, and ink is supplied by 
the creature. 
Of the cuttle-fish, Muffett says :— 
“ They are called also sleeves for their shape, and scribes for their 
incky humour wherewith they are replenished, and are commended by 
Galen for great nourishers; their skins be as smooth as any womans, 
but their flesh is brawny as any ploughmans; therefore I fear me 
Galen rather commended them upon hear-say then upon any just 
cause or true experience.” 
Sir Thomas Browne writes :— 
“ The loligo sieve, or calamar, found often upon the shore, from 
head to tail sometimes about an ell long, remarkable for its parrot-like 
