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enlivened by the pipe ind mufic, and this always forms part of their 

 drivers* profcflion. 



The humps on the back grow large in proportion as the animal is 

 well fed, and are in fubftance not unlike the udder of a cow. The 

 female goes with young about a year, and produces but one at a time. 

 Camel's milk is abundant and nourifhing, and mixed with water makes 

 a principal part of the beverage of the Arabians. They ordinarily live 

 from forty to fifty years. 



There is a kind of dromedary which is fwift, and ufed only to ride on, 

 is trained for running matches, and to carry couriers, who travel an 

 hundred miles a day for nine days together over burning fands. The 

 African camels are very hardy, and pafs dreadful delarts from Numidia 

 to Ethiopia. 



THE LAMA. 



^l^HE Lama may be confidered as the camel of the new world, and 

 J^ is every way fmaller than that of the old. Rcfembles the camel, 

 not only in its natural mildnefs, but its aptnefs for fervitude, its mo- 

 deracion, and its patience. The Americans early availed thcmfelves of 

 its ufeful qualities. 



They belong entirely to the new continent ; nor are they fpread over 

 all America, but chiefly among the Andes. They inhabit the higheft 

 rc-gions of the globe, and feem to require the purefl air. In Potofi, and 

 other provinces of Peru, where they are numerous, they make the chief 

 riches of their mailers, Indians and Spaniards : their flelh is excellent 

 food ; their hair, or rather wool, forms clothing ; and, in the moft 

 rugged and dangerous ways, they carry burthens of a hundred weight 

 with fafety. They go about fifteen miles a day ; their tread is heavy, 

 but fure ; they dcfccnd precipices, and find footing among craggy rocks 

 where men can fcarce accompany them. After four or five days labour, 

 they are obliged to repofe for a day or two. They are chitfly ufed in 

 carrying the riches of the mines of Potofi ; and we are told that there are 

 above three hundred thoufand of thefe animials in aftual employ. Were 

 ufed to plough the land before the irArodudion of mules. 



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