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BACTRIAN CAMEL. 
beat rude tunes oo small, kettle-drums. The 
Persians have yet a more delicate,, and better shaped 
breed, denominated, in their language, chotordor^ 
or chotobaad ; and by the Arabians, deloul, or 
elmecharis. These they train to make long 
marches, and feed with choice and substantial 
food. In the English dominions in India, the 
temper of the camel is said to be so froward, and his 
motions so violent, that the days of his hircarah or 
groom are frequently shortened by the trouble and 
fatigue which he suffers in managing him. Wild 
camels are said to subsist still in the deserts, in the 
temperate latitudes of Asia. 
Many of the above particulars, concerning the 
maimers and uses of the camel with one bunch, or 
dromedary, regard also the nest species, the Bac® 
trian or Turkish camel, who is furnished with two 
hunches. 
Bactrian camel. 
Except in having two bunches on the hack 
instead of one, this species scarce differs from the 
proceeding. Their size, their colours, their qua- 
lities, their uses, are almost entirely the same. 
Next after that which the bunches constitute, 
the most remarkable difference is, that the Arabian 
camel or dromedary thrives in the most torrid 
climates of Asia and Africa, where he is gentle, 
hut slender, and almost destitute of hair ; whereas 
the camel inhabits the more temperate climates, and 
is often larger, and of superior strength, moves 
with a firmer step, and is covered with finer hair. 
Tartary, Turkey, and Persia, are the regions which 
the camel chiefly inhabits. Dromedaries are most 
numerous in Arabia and Barbary. 
February is the season of copulation to these 
animals. The female is a year pregnant ; produces 
