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besides nux vomica, which is fatal to most animals except 

 man, they are injured, as Linnaeus asserts, by elder-berries, 

 of which they are not a little fond. 



THE CAMEL AND DROMEDARY. 



Camelus Bactrianus. Camelus Dromedarius. 



PLATE XXI. CAMEL AND DROMEDARY. 



The genus Camelus of which these two are the only in- 

 dividuals, has two upper and six lower incisors ; two upper 

 and two lower canines ; two upper and two lower false 

 molars ; ten upper and ten lower true molars. Inferior 

 incisors in the form of cutting wedges ; the superior, lat- 

 eral ; canines conical, erect and strong; false molars on 

 each side in the interdentary space ; toes united below ; 

 head long ; neck very long ; upper lip cleft ; nostrils slit 

 obliquely; eyes projecting; ears small; back with fatty 

 bunches; callosities on the breast and flexures of the ex- 

 tremities; four ventral mammas ; hair woolly; tail of 

 medium length. 



The first, (Camelus Bactrianus,) originally derived from 

 ancient Bactriana, is farJess numerous and widely spread 

 than the latter, and is restricted to Tartary, Persia, Thibet, 

 and China. The Arabian (Camelus Dromedarius) occupies 

 a great extent of territory, and is found, not only in Arabia 

 and Sahara, but in the northern parts of Asia, Egypt 

 Persia, and southern Tajtary, while his brethren are con- 

 fined within comparatively narrow limits. The one in- 

 habits the hottest portions of the globe, the other such as 

 are more temperate ; both seem limited to a zone of three 

 or four thousand leagues in breadth, extending from Mau- 



