[192] Aristotle was of this opinion, but Galen maintained that the mole can see. Its eye is extremely small, and hard on the surface.
[193] Or “white” heron. As Cuvier remarks, this is probably a mere augur’s fable.
[194] It is almost needless to remark, that both snails, as well as locusts and grasshoppers, have eyes.
[195] Lumbricus.
[196] B. vii. c. 2.
[197] “Cæsii.”
[198] The same has been said also of Cardan, the elder Scaliger, Theodore Beza, the French physician Mairan, and the republican Camille Desmoulins.
[199] Caligula.
[200] Hardouin with justice doubts the soundness of this alleged reason.
[201] He alludes, probably, to some method of curing cataract; perhaps somewhat similar to that mentioned by him in B. xx. c. 20.