CAMEL. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Six cutting teeth in the lower jaw ; none in the upper. 
Upper lip divided. 
Hoofs small. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Camelus Dromedarius. C. topho dorsi unico. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
Gmel. 1 . p. 168 . 
With one bunch on the back. 
Forsk. Fn. orient, p. 4. 
Arabian Camee* t • • Sm. Buff. v. 6. p. 118. pi. 168 . Penn. 
Hist. Quadr. p. 129 . pi. 23. Beiv. 
Quadr. p. 140. Shaw Gen. Zool. 2 . 
pi. 166 . 
The Arabs emphatically call the dromedary the 
ship of the desert ; and the name does not seem 
misapplied, when we consider him as the only ani- 
mal capable of conveying their merchandise across 
the burning sands. The driest thistle, or the barest 
thorn, is all the food this useful animal requires ; 
and even these, to save time, he eats while ad- 
vancing on his journey, without stopping, or oc- 
casioning a moment of delay. As these creatures 
