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that both males and females urine in the fame 

 manner. The young camel fucks his mother 

 twelve months * ; but, when defigned to be train- 

 ed, in order to render him ftrong and robuft in 

 the chafe, he is allowed to fuck and pafture at 

 freedom during the fir ft years, and is not loaded, 

 or made to perform any labour, till he is four 

 years of age ~\\ He generally lives forty and 

 fometimes fifty years J, and the duration of his 

 life is thus proportioned to the time of his 

 growth. Their is no foundation for what has 

 been advanced by fome authors, that he lives one 

 hundred years. 



By confidering, under one point of view, all 

 the qualities of this animal, and all the advanta- 

 ges derived from him, it muft be acknowledged 

 that he is the raoft ufeful creature which waseyer 

 fubjeded to the fervice of man. Gold and iilk 

 conftitute not the true riches of the halt. 1 lie 

 camel is the genuine treafure of Afi e is 



more valuable than the elephant ; for he may De 

 faid to perform an equal quarwity of labour at a 



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unacquainted with this circumftance, are liable to have their 

 clothes foiled with urine; Cofmographte die Levant, par 

 p. 74. — The camel difcharges his urine backward ; Voyage de 

 Villamoni, />. 688. 



* Separant prolem a parente anniculam ; Arijl. Hi/}. anim % 

 lib. 6. cap. 26. 



+ The camels called Heginby the Africans, are the lar^eR ; 

 but they arc never loaded till they are four years old ; L'A- 

 ftlque de Marmol, torn. I. p. 48. 



X Camelus vivit din, plus enim quam quadraginta annos ; 

 /irift. Hijl. anim. lib* 6. cap. 26. 



