of the Peruvian Lama. 487 



the blubber of the whale is placed in the animal by Nature, to 

 render the animal buoyant ; and that the rudiments of mammas 

 are placed on the human male breast to warm and cherish the 

 heart, and also for the sake of ornament. I feel, of course, that 

 to persons whose physiology is of this cast, all my previous re- 

 marks must appear puzzling and contradictory ; but they will not, 

 I trust, appear the less unimportant that they are not fully un- 

 derstood by those whose habits of loose reasoning induce them 

 to grasp at the first explanation of a phenomenon which pre- 

 sents itself to their minds *. 



SECTION II. 



We are now prepared, divested of the prejudices of ages, and 

 of false dissections, and of popular, and necessarily false, theories, 

 to enter on the inquiry of the physiological character of the sto- 

 mach in two animals, than which, in many respects, there are 

 none more interesting now inhabiting the globe. The Camel, 

 known to all antiquity, the ship of the desert, as it has been 

 styled by poets and by poetical writers, the medium of commu- 

 nication betwixt countries separated by deserts which neither man 

 nor animal could traverse in safety without its aid : patient un- 

 der fatigue, and temperate in regions where universal aridity, 

 eternal drought, and an almost insupportable heat, demands of 

 every thing living an excess in the use of liquid nourishment ; 

 these are the qualities known through ah 1 ages as characteristic 

 of this animal. On the other hand, the Lama, performing in mi- 



* Mr HUNTER used to explain the presence of parts and structures in animal 

 bodies, whose presence were obviously not requisite, by the highly figurative, and to 

 me unintelligible, phrase, that " Nature placed them there because she delights in 

 analogies." 



