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even twelve hundred * pounds weight, and the 

 fmalleft from fix to feven hundred j\ in ine * e 

 commercial travels, their march is not hastened : 

 As the route is often feven or eight hundred 

 leagues, their motions and journeys are regu- 

 lated. They walk only, and perform about 

 from ten to twelve leagues each day. Every 

 night they are unloaded, and allowed to pafturc 

 at freedom. When in a rich country, or fer- 

 tile meadow, they eat, in lefs than an hour J, 

 as much as ferves them to ruminate the whole 

 night, and to nourifh them during twenty-four 

 hours. But they feldom meet with fuch pa- 



I 3 llures ; 



* Some camels can carry loads of fifteen hundred pounds. 

 But they are never burdened in this manner, unlefs when the 

 merchants approach the places where the imports on goods are 

 levied, which they mean partly to evade, by laying as much on 

 one camel as was carried before by two. But, with this 

 great load, they travel not above two or three leagues a-day ; 

 Voyage de Tavernier, torn. 2. p. 335. 



f In the Eaft, the camel is called a land flrip, on account 

 of the great load he carries, which, for large camels, is gene- 

 rally twelve or thirteen hundred pounds ; for there are two 

 kinds, the northern and the fouthern, as they are denominated 

 by the Perhans. The latter, who travel only from the Perfic 

 Gulf to Ifpahan, are much fmaller than the other.'., and carry- 

 only about feven hundred pounds ; but they bring as much, 

 if not more profit to their mailers, becaufe their food hardly 

 colls any thing. They march loaded in this manner, paftu- 

 ring along the road, without bridle or halter ; Voyage de 

 Char din, torn. 2. p. 27. 



% Viflum cameli parcuTimum, exiguique fumptus ferunt, et 



magnis laboribus robuftiffime refiftunt. — . Nullum animal 



iilius molis citius comejit ; Prifp. Alp'in, \ 



