CAMEL. 
The Camel has a small head ; shorr ears ; 
and a long neck, slender and bending:. It's 
height to the top of the protuberance is about 
six feet six inches ; the colour of the hair is 
eommonly a reddish ash. It has a long tail, 
small hoofs, and fiat feet divided above, but not 
quite through. On the legs it has six callo- 
«iries; one on each knee, another on the in- 
side of each fore -leg on the uppermost joint, 
and one on the inside of the hind-leg at the 
bottom of rhe thigh : there is also another, on 
the lower part of the animal's breast. 
BufFon seems to consider the Camel as the 
most dom.esticated of all anim.als, and to have 
most marks of the tvrannv of man imprinted 
on it's form. He is of opinion, that this 
creature is not now to be found in a state of 
nature ; and that the nroiuberarxe on it's 
back, the callonties on it*s breast and legs, and 
even the great reser\'olr for water, are all the 
'fredls of it's education, and badges of it's 
F.laverv. 1 hese deformities he supposes to be 
perpetuated by generation; so that, what at 
first 
