The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832.

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May we not, however, say the friendless Sheridan?

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Communicated by M.L.B., Great Marlow, Bucks.

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Vide Mirror, vol. xviii. p. 343.—Note.

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A Collection of Poems of the Sixteenth Century.—Communicated by J.F., of Gray's Inn. We thank our Correspondent for the present, and shall be happy to receive further specimens from the same source.

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Philadelphia, Carey and Lea, 1832.

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Cuvier.

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Nat. Hist. Molluscous Animals, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. iii. p. 527.

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Manual Comp. Anat. p. 263.

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In all other worms the eyes are entirely wanting, or their existence is very doubtful. Whether the black points at the extremities of what Swammerdam calls the horns of the common snail, are organs which really possess the power of vision, is still problematical.

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Blumenbach, Man. Comp. Anat. p. 305.

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According to Cuvier, the Indian ink, from China, is made of this fluid, as was the ink of the Romans. It has been supposed, and 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; being, when fresh, of very agreeable taste.—Shaw's Zoology.

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Mr. Hatchett, in Philos. Trans.

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May it never come out of his body!