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and six feet in height. (Humboldt, Cosmos, Engl. ed. vol. 

 i. p. 268.) This camel of the Ancient World has received 

 the name of Camelus sivalensis, but does not show any con- 

 siderable difference from the still living Egyptian and 

 Eactrian camels with one and two humps. Forty camels have 

 very recently been introduced into Java, having been brought 

 there from Teneriffe. (Singapore Journal, of the Indian 

 Archipelago, 1847, p. 206.) The first experiment has been 

 made in Samarang. In like manner, reindeer have only 

 been introduced into Iceland from Norway in the course 

 of the last century. They were not found there when the 

 island was settled, notwithstanding the proximity to East 

 Greenland, and the existence of floating masses of ice. (Sar- 

 torius von Waltershausen physisch-geographische Skizze von 

 Island, 1847, S. 41.) 



( 10 ) p. 4.) "Between the Altai and the Kuen-lun." 



The great highland, or, as it is commonly called, the mountain 

 plateau of Asia, which includes the lesser Bucharia, Songarei, 

 Thibet, Tangut, and the Mogul country of the Chalcas and 

 Olotes, is situated between the 36th and 48th degrees of 

 latitude, and the meridians of 81 and 118 E. long. It is 

 an erroneous view to represent this part of the interior of Asia 

 as a single undivided mountainous gibbosity, continuous like 

 the elevated plains of Quito and Mexico, and elevated from 

 seven to nine thousand feet above the level of the sea. That 

 there is not in this sense any undivided mountain plateau in 

 the interior of Asia, has already been shewn by me in my 

 " Researches respecting the Mountains of Northern India." 



