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BACTRIAN CAMEL. 



Camelus Bactrianus, LINNJEUS. 

 PLATE I. 



Camelus Bactrianus, Linn Menagerie du Museum Na- 

 tional. Le Chameau a deux Bosses, Cuv. Regne Ani- 

 mal. Bactrian Camel, Hamilton Smith in Griffith's Cu- 

 vier, iv. p. 48. 



THIS species is supposed to have been originally 

 found in Bactria, the present Turkistan, and there to 

 have spread over Persia and Tartary to China. It is 

 the most hardy species, and will bear with much more 

 variety of climate than that which is more commonly 

 made use of in the deserts, and they are carried by 

 the Mongolians even as far as the Lake Baikal. It 

 is at once distinguished from the other animal, or 

 the Arabian Camel, by the presence of two large 

 humps upon the back, composed of a mass of fatty 

 substance ; the first placed upon the shoulders, the 

 other near the croup : it is considerably larger, and 

 more heavily built than the dromedary, and is not 

 used for any conveyance which requires much dis- 

 patch. A full grown animal of this kind will reach 



