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by subsequent rumination serves to diminish the 

 degree of hunger to which other animals would 

 be exposed ; ; .t seems formed by nature for the 

 especial duties which human conveuiencies have 

 assigned to it ; affording one of those numerous 

 instances, in which Providence has so benevo- 

 lently adapted its operations to the necessities 

 of the occasion ; and where the deficiencies on 

 the one hand, have been most amply compen- 

 sated by a proportionate accommodation in the 

 other. 



In all those parts of Turkey, Persia, Arabia, 

 Egypt, and Barbary, where land carriages would 

 be of little avail, the whole commerce is conduct- 

 ed by means of Camels ; and thus, as in the 

 Elephant, communications the most important 

 have been preserved between places, to 

 which mankind, otherwise, would never have 

 had success; while population has been intro- 

 duced into regions, which, without the aid of 

 this most invaluable animal, would have been 

 left to the remorseless tiger, or to the still more 

 wary, (though not less destructive) serpent. 



The Arab of the desart, in a few instances the 

 faithful guide of the uninstructed traveller, though 

 too often his most treacherous foe, by means 

 of the accommodating Camel, finds a residence 

 in the dreary desarts of Africa and Asia, where, 

 from the unkindness of the soil and climate, ho 

 other human being dare to fix his abode; and 



