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name Tjuga as the original, the Persian Tjuter, and the 

 Tue, Tua, Dui, Tego, Tymi, and Toemestri of the other 

 nations of Central and Eastern Asia, may be considered all 

 as derived from the same root, and support the opinion, 

 that the species with an indigenous name was not im- 

 ported from the south. It is probably also the origin of the 

 Chinese Tong; they having a breed, it would seem, of this 

 species, so peculiarly fleet as to be named Tong Kyo Fo, or 

 " camel with feet of the wind;" the.Greeks of the Roman 

 period seem to have designated this species by the name 

 of Ditylus. 



The Arabian Camel, (Camelus Dromedarius, Linn.) is 

 the species with only one hunch, and of which the Drome- 

 dary, properly so called, is a breed : thus also the names 

 of Ashary, (the Oosharee of Antar) Mahary Oont Egin, #c, 

 designate breeds, among which the Mahairy, or Dromedary 

 of the Greeks, is the most celebrated for speed. Nago de- 

 signates the female at least among the Western Arabs of 

 Morocco. In this species, the contraction of the abdomen 

 close under the pelvis, is still more remarkable than in the 

 preceding: the hunch is broader, placed more on the 

 middle of the back, and lower; but the legs are more ele- 

 vated and slender. It appears to be divided in a similarly 

 great number of breeds or varieties, all, nevertheless, de- 

 pending on the very trivial distinctions of colour, size, and 

 form: in height they do not exceed seven feet: those of 

 Turkey are the strongest and best suited for burden, those 

 of Arabia and Barbary the lightest, and those of India, 

 where there are breeds for both purposes constantly 

 supplied by fresh importations from the north-west; yet 

 probably inferior in their class to those more in the vicinity 

 of their original climate. The rutting season commences 

 in Spring, and lasts only two months, at the end of which 

 they do not become so completely naked as the Bactrian. 

 The females are usually preserved from labour, browsing 



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