THE CAMEL AND DROMEDARY. 



Arabian, and is kept in great numbers about the lake Baikal, but they are 

 there much lefs than thofe which inhabit Weltern Tartary. During the 

 winter feafon, they feed chiefly on willows and other trees, which flender 

 diet makes them become very lean. There is a white variety of this animal 

 found in Weftern Tartary, which is very fcarce, and is facred to the idols and 

 priefts. 



In China, there is a variety which is very fwift, and is expreflively called 

 Fong Kyo Fo, or Camel with feet of the wind. The Chinefe draw an oil or 

 fat from the bunches, which they hold in great eftimation for the cure of 

 many diforders, as ulcers, numbnefs, and confumptions. 



The bunches on the back of this animal feem to arife from a redundance of 

 nourifliment, at leafi: they are evidently much afFecled by it; during the long 

 journeys it performs, in which its driver is often obliged to put it upon ftiort 

 allowance, both of food and water, the bunches gradually diminifh, till they 

 become almolt flat, and are only to be perceived by the length of the hair 

 which grows on them. They foon, however, acquire their natural lize on 

 the animal's receiving its full quantity of proviflon. 



The Baclrian Camel is found wild in the temperate parts of the deferts of 

 Arabia, and in this ftate it is ftronger and more generous than when it is 

 do medicated, 



