The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832

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Notes to Childe Harold, ibid.—See Engraving of Petrach's House at Arquà, Mirror, vol. xvii, p. 1.

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They have no slates in this country—nor in the valleys of Piemont.—Two benevolent benefactors to the Protestant cause in Italy, who wished to confer a benefit upon the schools of Piemont, have enabled me to supply the Vaudois schools with this useful and economical article.

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"The ink secreted in this bag has been said to be thrown out to conceal the animal from its pursuers; but, in a future lecture, I shall endeavour to show that this secretion is to answer a purpose in the animal economy connected with the functions of the intestines." (Hume's Comp. Anat. vol. i. p. 376.) Dr. Coldstream, in a letter to the author, detailing the manners of Octopus ventricosus in captivity, says, "I have never seen the ink ejected, however much the animal may have been irritated." I have, however, been told by our fishermen, that they have seen this species eject the black liquid, with considerable force, on being just taken from the sea.

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Sir B. Sibbald says that the Loligo, or hose-fish, besides its ink has another purple juice. (Scot. Illust. vol. ii. lib. 3. p. 26.) I find no mention of this in any other author.