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this dissertation fills more than eighty quarto 

 pages, and will be followed by a philological and 

 lexicographical appendix, containing the texts of 

 the Koran and those of the Scriptures referring 

 to the camel, the proverbs applied to him or 

 borrowed from his habits and uses, and numerous 

 poetical descriptions, similes, and the like, drawn 

 from the whole range of Arabic literature. The 

 Arabic descriptive words illustrated, explained, 

 or cited in this part of the paper, amount to nearly 

 six thousand. The first part appeared in the 6th 

 volume of the Memoirs of the Imperial Academy 

 of Science at Vienna, in 1855, and the remainder 

 is promised for the next volume. The most im- 

 portant remaining contribution to our knowledge 

 of the uses of the camel is a volume entitled, 

 Du Dromadaire comme bete de Somme, et comme 

 animal de Guerne^ Paris, 1853, by the late Gen. 

 Carbuccia, which contains much valuable in- 

 formation, unfortunately intermixed with exag- 

 gerations that a sounder criticism would have 

 rejected. 



