CAMEL. 
receive their food at stated times, but the 
Camel is restrained for several days together ; 
and these intervals of famine are increased in 
proportion as the creature seems capable of 
supporting them. By this mode of education, 
it lives several days without food or water : 
and, indeed, it's stomach is admirably fitted by 
nature for long ahstinence ; since, besides the 
four stomachs which all animals chewing the 
cud possess, , the Camel has a fifth, which 
serves as a reservoir to contain a greater quan- 
tity of water than the animal has immediate 
occasion for, where it remains without cor- 
ruption or adulteration from other aliments. 
When the Camel finds itself pressed with 
thirst, it here finds an easy resource ; fox, 
tlirowing up a quantity of this water, by a 
simple contra 6lion of the muscles, irito the 
other stomachs, it serves to macerate it's dry 
food. As it drinks but seldom, it takes a large 
quantity at a time ; and travellers, when 
parched with thirst, are reported to have not 
uiilrequently dispatched this useful animal for 
tiic sake of the fluid it's stomach was expe6ted 
to coiitain. 
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