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six hundred to seven hundred. Fraser states 

 his load in Khorasan at from four hundred and 

 fifty to seven hundred pounds. Colonel Ches- 

 ney found the loads of a caravan of several 

 hundred camels, in the Syrian desert, to average 

 five hundred and fifty pounds, though he else- 

 where states their common burden to be six 

 hundred. 



In Algeria, he carries two or three hundred 

 kilogrammes, (450 to 675 pounds,) but at Cairo, 

 according to Burckhardt, fifteen hundred pounds 

 for a distance of three miles, and one thousand 

 from Cairo to Suez, which is eighty-four miles. 

 In Cabul, according to General Harlan,^ the 

 burden of the Arabian camel is, upon the plains, 

 four hundred pounds ; that of the cross between 

 the Bactrian and Arabian, under similar cir- 

 cumstances, six hundred, and over mountainous 

 roads four hundred pounds. In European Tur- 

 key, the one-humped camel is said to carry from 

 four to five hundred pounds ; and Burnes esti- 

 mates the load of the same animal in Bokhara 

 at five hundred pounds. The burden of the 

 Turcoman camel, according to Burckhardt, is 

 eight hundred pounds ; Forbes rates it fi-om 

 seven hundred to one thousand, Fraser one 

 hundred pounds higher, and Tavernier at one 

 thousand ; and, for short distances, even fifteen 



1 U. S. Pat. Rep. 1853, Agrlc. 61. 



