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different climates. Ariftotle * has marked the 

 two principal races with much propriety ; the 

 firft, or the one with two bunches, under the 

 name of the Baclrian camel If, and the fecond 

 under that of the Arabian camel. The firft are 

 called Turkijh camels J, and the other Arabian 

 camels. This distinction ftill fubfifts; but, as 

 many parts of Afia and Africa are now difco- 



vered, 



* Camelus proprium inter caeteros quadrupedes habet in 

 dorfo, quod tuber appellant, fed ita ut Badrianae ab Arabiis 

 differant ; alteris enim bina, altem fingula tubera habentur ; 

 Arifl hift. anitn. lib. 2. cap. I. — Theodore Gaza, whofe trans- 

 lation I have uniformly followed when I quote from Arif- 

 totle, appears to have rendered this paffage in an ambiguous 

 manner ; Alteris enimbina, alteris fingula tubera habentur, Signi- 

 fies only that fome have two, and others but one bunch ; 

 while the Greek text mentions exprefsly, that the Arabian 

 camels have but one, and the Baftrian camels two bunches. 

 Pliny likewife, who, in this article, as well as in many others, 

 copies Ariftotle, has tranflated this paffage much better than 

 Gaxa ; Cameli Baclriani et A rabid differant, quod illi bina habent 

 tubera in dorfo, hi fingula ; Plin. Hift. Nat. lib. 8 cap. 18. 



f Bactriana is a province of Alia, which now includes 

 Turkeftan, the country of the U {becks, &c. 



t We went to Mount Sinai upon camels, becaufe there is 

 no water on this road, and other animals cannot travel with- 

 out drinking. . . • But the Arabian camels, which are fmall, 

 and different from thofe of Cairo, who come from Sour, and 

 other places, can travel three or four days without drink. . . 

 They travel from Cairo to Jerufalem, not only upon thefe 

 fmall Arabian camels, but upon a larger kind, which are cal- 

 led TurkiJJj camels ; Voyage de Pietro della Valle, torn. I. p. 360. et 



408. In Barbary, the dromedary is called Maihari; and 



is not fo common in Barbary as in the Levant This 



fpecies differs from the ordinary camel, by having a rounder 

 and handibmer body, and only one fmall bunch on the back ; 

 Shaw's Travels. 



