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This foil produces no pafture ; the ox is alfo 

 wanting ; and the camel fupplies his place. 



When we confider the nature and ftru&ure of 

 thefe animals, we cannot be deceived with re- 

 gard to their native country, which muft be fuit- 

 ed to their frame and temperament, efpecially 

 wnen thefe are not modified by the influence of 

 other climates. In vain have attempts been 

 made to multiply them in Spain * ; in vain 

 have they been tranfported to America. They 

 have neither fucceeded in the one country nor 

 in the other ; and, in the Eaft Indies, they are 

 not found beyond Surat and Ormus. We mean 

 not to fay abfolutely, that they cannot fubfift and 

 produce in India, Spain, and America, and even 

 in colder countries, as thofe of France, Germa- 

 ny, &c. "(*. By keeping them, during the winter, 

 in warm {tables ; by feeding them well, and 

 treating them with care ; by not employing them 

 in labour, and not allowing them to go out for 



exercife, 



tinople, are large, and commonly carry burdens of one thou- 

 fand pounds. They draw themfelves out of miry ground ; 

 but, when the earth is fat and Hippery, they are obliged to 

 go, fometimes to the number of a hundred, at each others 

 iides, in order to pafs over it ; Voyage de Tavernicr, tcm. I. 

 p. 161. 



* Camels are frequently feen in Spain. They are fent, by 

 the governours of places, from the frontiers of Africa. But 

 they never live long there; becaufe the country is too cold 

 for them; & Afrique de Marmot, torn. i. p. 50- 



f M. le Marquis de Montmirail informs me, that he was 

 afTured that the King of Poland had, in the neighbourhood 

 of Drefden. camels and dromed?rie? which multiplied. 



