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and twenty-five miles, between sun and sun. 

 He accomplished one hundred and fifteen miles, 

 occupying twenty minutes in crossing and re- 

 crossing the Nile by ferry in eleven hours, and 

 then gave up the wager. Burckhardt thinks 

 this dromedary would have travelled one hundred 

 and eighty or two hundred miles in twenty-four 

 hours without serious injury. The valuable paper 

 extracted from the notes of General Harlan, and 

 printed in the U. S. Patent- Office Report of 

 1853, Agriculture, 61, states that the ordinary 

 day's journey of the dromedary of Cabul is sixty 

 miles, but that picked animals will travel one 

 hundred miles a day for several days in succes- 

 sion, their greatest speed being about ten miles 

 an hour. Captain Lyon ^ affirms that the ma- 

 hari of the Sahara will travel many successive 

 hours at the rate of nine miles an hour. The 

 Syrian deloul goes in five days from Bagdad to 

 Sokhne, a distance which the loaded caravans 

 require twenty-one days to perform, or from the 

 same city to Aleppo in seven, the caravans gen- 

 erally taking twenty-five. Couriers have ridden, 

 without change of dromedary, from Cairo to 

 Mecca in eighteen days, while the ordinary 

 camels .seldom accomplish the journey in less 

 than forty-five. Layard ^ gives several instances 



1 Travels in Africa, 114. 



2 New Researches. 



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