SANDS OF THE DESERTS, 
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to guard ilic eyes and inoulh against the 
N iij^ sand which is always flying about in the air ; 
I ''’Weller has to seek the right direction, to avoid 
"t the windings made in the middle of the hills 
'Ibt (J' "'Itich bound tire sight, and which shift from one 
so often, as not to leave anything to be 
t Kil- **'®sky and sand, without any mark by which 
J'e sanj’°'} can be known. Even the deepest footstep in 
'iJot ■ Q ot either man or horse disappears the moment the 
. tile • 
S of'^'^ensity, the swiftness, and tlie everlasting mo- 
Nts, Waves disturb the sight both oi men and 
^ 'he’/'' 'liat they are almost continually marching as if 
''PtririJ*.'^- The camel gives here a proot of his great 
re- 
part 
t ''^'tiOrit 1^' “c camel gi'ca ncic i/.uui v,, t,. 
his long neck, perpendicularly erected, 
I from the ground, and from the thick p 
oyes arc well defended by thick eye-lids, 
conj ''’''tded with hair, and which he keeps half shut ; 
,'"'U l,;.'^'"''on of his feet, broad and cushion-like, prn- 
*'tn , 
V '7'^'^ v^uu iiuii, cum y>iiiv->ix A-vCCpS 
h" " _ - - 
' to n '‘'^•''fling deep into the sand ; his long legs enable 
A oy the same space with only half the number ot 
eS a,f5 r animal, and therefore v;ith less fatigue. 
?Ni(i .''^tttiiges give him a solid and easy gait, on a 
^Crtai animals walk with slow, short, and 
wid in a tottering manner, ticnce the 
j.'j'ive by nature for these journeys, affords a new 
V*" tile P'"''’'’® to the Creator, who in liis wisdom has 
to the African, as he has bestowed the 
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Laplander. 
™>>t rotiinger, in his travels in Beloochistan, a 
(,(■ "tcse .^^'idia, gives the following in'eresting account 
"ttoiis phenomena. He had to pass o\ er a desert 
[w^'take f particles of which wete so light, that 
'C tile wi"' were scarcely more than pal- 
in^Qf \vg , being thrown by the winds into an irrcgnlar 
tlif '"gilt ' Pi'incipally running east and west, and vai )’ing 
Ml'*' 7°“^ ''"i to twenty leet. The greater part ot 
'tact!* the^*'^'P®"<Jtenlaiiy on the opposite side to that from 
W ^!’'"'‘t'fltig north-west wind blew, and might 
gkcl ''’all fanek-d, at a distance, to reseniblc a tiew 
^'*>'1 k ,. .bo side facing the wind sloped oft witii a 
"bvity towai-ds the base of the iiex-t w’mdvt ard 
