MAMMIFEROUS ANIMALS. 



ize the human mind to the surrounding objects; 

 has been but of secondary consideration, in the 

 views of providence, when a much more impor- 

 tant end was to be answered. 



The general utility of the Camel is too well 

 understood to stand in need of a copious illustra- 

 tion. It is obviously an animal of vast import- 

 ance ia the countries in which it is a native, where 

 civilization has not led to the use of land car- 

 riages, and more especially, where the nature of 

 the soil is unfavourable to their application. 



The great desarls of Arabia and of Africa, 

 where unbounded desolation marks their trackless 

 surface, would never have been traversed with- 

 out the aid of this most useful animal ; which, at 

 the slightest signal, docily bending his knee to 

 the ground to receive on his back a load often 

 exceeding six hundred weight, by the single 

 guidance of a rope fixed to its nose, it proceeds 

 with measured steps over those regions of sand 

 and sterility, where no other beast of burden can 

 find a hold ; and whose scanty vegetation and 

 arid surface, exclude the hope of supplies to 

 less hardy animals. 



Endued, as we have previously stated, by 

 means of a cellular stomach, with the power of 

 retaining a large proportion of water, and after- 

 wards, .by muscular action, of regurgitating it 

 as it stands in need ; and laving in aa ample 

 .supply of provisions in another stomach, which, 



