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paunch, or even as high as the oefophagus, by 

 a iimple contraction of certain mufcles. It is 

 by this lingular ftru&ure that the camel is en- 

 abled to pafs ieveral days without drinking, and 

 to take at a time a prodigious quantity of water, 

 which remains in the refervoir pure and limpid, 

 becaufe neither the liquors of the body, nor the 

 juices of digeftion, can mix with it. 



If we reflect on the diffimilarities in this ani- 

 mal from other quadrupeds, we cannot doubt 

 that his nature has been confiderably changed 

 by conftraint, ilavery, and perpetual labour: Of 

 all animals, the camel is the mod ancient, the 

 completer!:, and the moft laborious Have. He is 

 the moft ancient flave, becaufe he inhabits thofe 

 climates where men were firft polifhed. He is 

 the moft complete flave, becaufe, in the other 

 fpecies of domeftic animals, as the horfe, the dog, 

 the ox, the (heep, the hog, &c. we ftill End in- 

 dividuals in a irate of nature, and which have 

 never fubmittcd to men. But the whole fpecies 

 of the camel is enflaved ; for none of them ex- 

 ift in their primitive ftate of liberty and indepen- 

 dence. Laftly, he is the moft laborious flave ; 

 becaufe he has never been nourifhed for pomp, 

 like moft horfes, nor for amufement, like moft 

 dogs, nor for the ufe of the table, like the ox, 

 the hog, and the (heep; becaufe he has always 

 been made a beaft of burden, whom men have 

 never taken the trouble of yoking in machines, 

 but have regarded the body of the animal as a 



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