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the covering of their tents. When we 
^’’ther consider that it is the only means of 
Conveyance and communication across the im- 
^onse deserts, we shall not wonder that the 
^tab regards his camel as an inestimable gift 
Heaven, a sacred animal, without which he 
'^culd not subsist in those sterile "Solitudes. 
In Turkey, Persia, Arabia, Egypt, and 
,^1'bary, the whole internal commerce is car- 
on by means of these useful animals. In 
ose countries the camel furnishes the cheap- 
and most expeditious mode of conveyance, 
^ns Burckhardt, the celebrated traveller, says : 
countries where camels are bred in great 
inbers, land-carriage is almost as cheap as 
by water. The carriage of a camel-load 
Soods, weighing from six to seven hundred 
^COnds English, from Bagdad to Aleppo, a 
*^lance of six hundred miles, is four pounds 
^^ctlingy 
^^erchants and travellers form numerous 
