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Quadrupeds 
THE ARABIAN CAMEL, OR DROMEDARY. 
(Camelns Dromedarius.) 
Another species of Camel, of less stature than the former, 
but much swifter, and having but one hard bunch on nis 
back, is domesticated throughout Africa, as well as in 
Asia. It is said that a Dromedary can travel one hundred 
miles a day, and carry fifteen hundredweight. Attempts 
have been made to introduce the Camel and Dromedary 
into our West India islands, but they have not succeeded ; 
they have, however, been comparatively naturalized near 
Pisa in Italy. The Camels used as beasts of burden in 
Egypt are all Dromedaries ; and the first experiment 
which an European makes in bestriding one is generally 
a service of some little danger, from the peculiarity of 
the animal's movement in rising. Denon, the French 
traveller, has described this with his usual vivacity : 
" During the French invasion of Egypt, a part of 
Dessaix's division," to which the scientific traveller was 
