AND DROMEDARY. 123 



Egypt *, in Perfia, in South Tartary f , and in 

 tire northern parts of India. Thus the drome- 

 dary occupies immenfe territories, and the camel 

 is confined within narrow limits. The firft in- 

 habits dry and hot regions, the fecond, countries 

 which are lefs dry and more temperate; and the 

 whole fpecies, including both varieties, feems to 

 be limited to a zone of three or four hundred 

 leagues in breadth, extending from Mauritania 

 to China; for, on either fide of this zone, it has 

 no exiftence. This animal, though a native of 

 warm climates, dreads thofe which are exceflive- 

 ly hot. The fpecies terminates where that of 

 the elephant commences ; and it can neither 

 fubfift under the burning heat of the Torrid 

 Zone, nor under the mild air of the Temperate. 

 It feems to be an original native of Arabia J ; 



for 



* Audio verb in iEgypto longe plura qUam quater centum 

 jnillia camelorum vivere ; Profp. dip. Rift. Nat. Egypt. part. i. 

 j>ag. 226. 



f Delectantur etiam Tartan Buratflcoi re pecuaria, max- 

 ime camelis, quorum ibi magna copia eft, uncle complures a 

 caravannis ad Sinam tendentious redimuntur, ita ut optimus 

 camelus duodecim vel ad iummum quindecim rubelis ha- 

 beri poffit ; Noviffima Stnica hlftoriam nojiri temporis illujiratura, 



&c. edente G. G. L. pag. 1 66. Tartary abounds in cattle, 



and particularly in horfes and camels; Voyage hi/iorique de I' Eu- 

 rope, torn. 7. p. 204. 



% Arabia is the native country of camels ; for, though 

 they are found in all places into which they have been car- 

 ried, and even multiply in thefe places ; yet there is no part 

 of the earth where they are equally numerous; Voyage du P. 

 Philippe, p. 369 — Tanta apud Arabes eft camelorum copia, 



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