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ARABIAN CAMEL. 
Arabian camel. 
The height of this animal from the top of its 
bunch to the ground, is about six feet six inches. 
Its head is small ; its ears are short ; its neck 
long, slender, and bending. Its hoofs are in part, 
but not thoroughly divided. The bottom of the 
foot is tough and pliant. The tail is long, and 
terminates in a tuft also of considerable length. 
Oo the legs this animal has six callosities ; four 
on the fore legs, and two oo the hinder ; besides 
another on the lower part of the breast. These 
are the parts on which it rests. Its hair is hoe, 
soft, and of considerable length ; longest indeed 
upon the bunch, the neck, and the throat. In the 
middle of the tuft, terminating the tail, the hair 
is soft and hue ; on the exterior parts, coarse, 
and often black. On the protuberance it is 
dusky ; over the rest of the body of a reddish asli 
colour. 
Till very lately the camels have been supposed 
to possess, independently of the four stomachs 
common to ruminating animals, a fifth bag, which 
served them as a reservoir for holding water. 
From a preparation,, however, in the collection 
of Mr. John Hunter, it appears that this fifth 
bag never existed but in idea. The second sto- 
mach is of a very peculiar construction, being 
formed of numerous cells several inches deep, 
having their mouths uppermost, and the orifices 
apparently capable of muscular contraction. When 
the animal drinks it probably has the power of 
directing the water into these cells, instead of Set- 
ting it pass into the first stomach, and when these 
are filled, the rest of the water will go into that 
stomach. In this manner a quantity of water 
may be kept separate from the food, serving ©eea® 
