THE CAMEL 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. 



The first command addressed to man by his 

 Creator, and substantially repeated to the second 

 great progenitor of our race, not only charged 

 him to subdue the earth, but gave him dominion 

 over all terrestrial creatures, whether animate or 

 inanimate, and thus predicted and prescribed the 

 subjugation of the entire organic and inorganic 

 world to human control and human use. 



Man has yet by no means consummated this 

 grand mission. He has, indeed, surveyed the 

 greater part of his vast domain ; marked the 

 common boundary of its solid and its fluid sur- 

 faces, and approximately measured their areas 

 and determined their relative elevation ; pierced 

 its superficial strata, and detected the order of 

 their historical succession ; reduced to their 

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