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BACTRIAN CAMEL. ! 
Camelus Bactrianus, — LiNjTiEUS. 
PLATE I. 
Ctimelus Bactrianus, Linn — Menagerie du Museum Na- 
tional. — Le Chameau a deux Bosses, Cuv. Regne Ani- 
mal . — Bactrian Camel, Hamilton Smith in Griffith's Cu- 
vier, iv. p. 48. 
This species is supposed to have been originally 
found in Bactria, the present Turkiston, and there to 
have spread over Persia and Tartary to China. It is 
the most hardy species, and will bear with much more 
variety of climate tlian that which is more commonly 
made use of in the deserts, ami they are carried by 
the Mongolians even as far as the Lake Baikal. It 
is at once distinguished from the other animal, or 
the Arabian Camel, by the presence of two large 
humps upon the back, composed of a mass of fatty 
substance ; the first placed upon the shoulders, the 
other near the croup : it is considerably larger, and 
more heavily built than the dromedary, and istnot 
used for any conveyance which I'equires much dis- 
patch. A full grown“animal of this kind will reach 
