BACTRIAN CAMEL. 
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seven feet and a fialf to tlie top of the shoulder hunch. 
The colour of the hair is generally of a dark brown, 
though light varieties often occur, and are sometimes 
bred; on some parts of the body it is long and shaggy; 
on the crown of each hunch, the mane, crown of the 
bead, forepart of the neck, it is thick and lengthened ; 
and where the fore leg proceeds from the body, there 
is a large bunch, which grows down on the fore arm. 
The second species of Camel, or that with only 
one bump on the back, is known under the name 
of the 
ARABIAN CAMEL OR DROMEDARY.* 
C. dromedarius Linnasus. 
It is by far the most extensively used, and seems 
from its constitution to be able te endure for a greater 
length of time those fatigues and deprivations to 
which it is subjected ; and it is this animal which is 
of such vast utility in the east, the fortune of the 
Arab, and nearly the only beast of burden in Tur- 
key, Persia, and the north of Africa. It is at once 
distinguished from the preceding animal by having 
only a single hump placed nearly in the centre of 
the back, and is of a size and stature somewhat 
* From a runner, being used for eonveying ex- 
presses, &e. 
