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Quadrupeds. 







THE ARABIAN CAMEL, OE DROMEDARY. 



(Camelus Dromedarius.) 



ANOTHER species of Camel, of less stature than the former, 

 but much swifter, and having but one hard bunch on nis 

 back, is domesticated throughout Africa, as well as in 

 Asia. It is said that a Dromedary can travel one hundred 

 miles a day, and carry fifteen hundredweight. Attempts 

 have been made to introduce the Camel and Dromedary 

 into our West India islands, but they have not succeeded ; 

 they have, however, been comparatively naturalized near 

 Pisa in Italy. The Camels used as beasts of burden in 

 Egypt are all Dromedaries; and the first experiment 

 which an European makes in bestriding one is generally 

 a service of gome little danger, from the peculiarity of 

 the animal's movement in rising. Denon, the French 

 traveller, has described this with his usual vivacity : 

 " During the French invasion of Egypt, a part of 

 Dessaix's division," to which the scientific traveller was 



