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temidorus and Agatharchides of Cnidus, the Ailanitic Gulf of the 

 Nabatheans was the home of the wild Arabian camel. (Bitter's 

 Asien, bd. viii. s. 670, 672, and 746.) The discovery of fossil 

 camel bones of the ancient world by Captain Cautley and Doctor 

 Falconer, in 1834, in the sub-Himalaya range of the Sewalik hills, is 

 peculiarly deserving of notice. These bones were found with other 

 ancient bones of mastodons, of true elephants, of giraffes, and of a 

 gigantic land tortoise (Colossochelys), twelve feet in length and six 

 feet in height. (Humboldt, Cosmos, Engl. ed. vol. i. p. 268.) This 

 camel of the Ancient World has received the name of Camelus 

 sivalensis, but does not show any considerable difference from 

 the still living Egyptian and Bactrian camels with one and two 

 humps. Forty camels have very recently been introduced into Java, 

 having been brought there from Teneriffe. (Singapore Journal of 

 the Indian Archipelago, 1847, p. 206.) The first experiment has 

 keen made in Samarang. In like manner, reindeer have only been 

 introduced into Iceland from Norway in the course of the last cen- 

 tury. They were not found there when the island was settled, not- 

 withstanding the proximity to East Greenland, and the existence of 

 floating masses of ice. (Sartorius von Waltershausen physisch- 

 geographische Skizze von Island, 1847, s. 41.) >. ; 



( 10 ) p. 27. "Between, the Altai and the Kuen-liin." 

 The great highland, or as it is commonly called, the mountain 

 plateau of Asia, which includes the lesser Bucharia, Songarei, Thi- 

 bet, Tangut, and the Mogul country of the Chalcas and Olotes, is 

 situated between the 36th and 48th degrees of latitude, and the 

 meridians of 81 and 118 E. long. It is an erroneous view to 

 represent this part of the interior of Asia as a single undivided 

 mountainous gibbosity, continuous like the elevated plains of Quito 

 and Mexico, and elevated from seven to nine thousand feet above 

 the level of the sea. That there is not in this sense any undivided 

 mountain plateau in the interior of Asia, has already been shown by 

 me, in my " Researches respecting the Mountains of Northern India/' 

 (Humboldt, Premier M&noire sur les Montagues de 1'Inde, in the 

 Annales de Chimie et de Physique, t. iii. 1816, p. 303 ; Second 

 Me"moire, t. xiv. 1820, pp. 5-55.) 

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