THE CAMEL AND DROMEDARY. 



The Camel is obferved to be more vigorous in the dry, mountainous 

 countries of Tartary, Perlia, and Turkey, where the climate is fometimes as 

 cold as the more fouthern parts of Europe. It is probable, therefore, that 

 this animal, whofe hair is fo valuable, whofe milk is fo abundant, and 

 whofe flelh is fuch wholefome food, might be naturalized in thofe fituations, 

 which refemble its native country, where it would prove a moft defirable 

 acquifition. 



Pliny (a) fays, the Camel has a natural averfion to the Horfe, and Ariftotle 

 remarks (b) that in walking they never advance the left foot 'before the right. 



(a) Plin. Hift. Nat. lib. viii. c. 18. 1. 23. (b) Arift. Hift. Anim. lib. ii. c. 1. L 60. 



THE BACTRIAN CAMEL. 



Generic Characters. 

 The fame as the Arabian Camel. 



Synonims. 

 Kuy^Xog Bazoos, Arift. Hift. An. lib. ii. c. 1. 

 Camelus Bactrianus, Plin. Hift. Nat. lib. viii. c. 18. 

 Camel, called Becheti, Leo Afr. 338. 



Camelus Bactrianus. C. dorfi tophis duobus. Linn. Syjl. go. 

 Le Chameau, de Buff on, xi. 211. tab. xxii. 

 Persian Camel, RuffeVs Alep. 57. 

 Bactrian Camel, Pennant's Syn. Quad. ii. 51. 



IT has already been obferved, that the Bactrian Camel differs from the 

 Arabian, only in the number of bunches it has on its back ; the Badtrian 

 having two, whereas the Arabian, or Dromedary, has but one. 



The Ba&rian Camel, being much hardier than the Arabian, is chiefly ufed 

 among the Tartars as a beaft of burden. It bears cold much better than the 



