46 THREE CAMELS. 
accounts given, however, as well by writers 
as by travellers, the three animals have often 
been multiplied into five; and, among the 
three Sheep, or the three Camels, there has 
even been found a Horse. Molina, the his- 
torian of Chili, and Shaw, in his System of 
Zoology, have a Chili cloven-footed Horse ! 
But in this manner has much of all Zoo- 
logy been written, and continued to be writ- 
ten. At one time, a single species of animal 
is multiplied into three or four; as, at ano- 
ther, three or four species are mingled into 
one ! 
‘The three genuine descriptions refer to 
three animals sufficiently distinguishable by 
their respective sizes, figures, and colours, 
but more than all by the state and situations 
in which they are respectively found, by 
their adaptations to human uses, and the 
manner In which they are made available. 
But, when we have ascertained the distinc- 
tions which thus separate the three animals, 
we are still surrounded by certain difficulties 
in the due apprepriation of their names. 
Two of the names, familiar to European 
ears, are uniformly misapplied; and_ the 
