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of comparatively late introduction into that con- 

 tinent;' but this conjecture does not appear to 

 be supported 

 by any direct 

 historical or 

 physiological 

 evidence. The 

 scientific spe- 

 cific designa- 

 tion of the 

 one-humped 

 camel is not 



Well chosen. ARABIAN, OR OXE-HUMPED CAMEL. 



The term dramas, as applied to the camel by the 

 ancients, was not used to indicate a specific dif- 



1 Minutoli thinks he recognizes the head of the camel 

 among the figures upon an obelisk at Luxor. Upon the walls 

 of some of the smaller apartments of the great temple of 

 Karnac are carved heads, which certainly appear to me to 

 resemble the camel's head more closely than that of any 

 other quadruped ; and St. John, Adventures in the Libyan 

 Desert, Chap. xn. says he found this animal among the 

 sculptures of the temple at the oasis of Jupiter Ammon. 

 But recent Egyptologists consider some of these figures to 

 represent the head of the lion, others that of the giraffe, and 

 it is certain that no part of the skeleton of the camel has 

 been met with in the catacombs. Although it appears from 

 Strabo, that the tribes of the desert anciently employed the 

 camel in the transport of merchandise between Coptos and 

 Berenice, as they do now between Cairo and Suez, yet there 

 is abundant evidence to show that he was not used by the 



