Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The CAMEL and D R O M - D A R Y . npHE names Camel and Dromedary fignify not two different fpecies, but only two dif- tinct races of the camel, which have fubfifted There are two fpecies of the camel, the Baftmn camel, and the Arabian camel or dromedary. They have no cutting teeth in the upper jaw. The upper lip is diiided, like that of the hare; and they have fix cutting teeth in the lower jaw. ?The Badlrian camel has two bunches on the back, a fmall head, fhort ears, and a long (lender, bending neck. The height, to the top of the bunches, is fix feet fix inches. The hair is foft, longeft about the neck, under the throat, and about the bunches. The colour of the hair on the protuberances is duflcy, on the other parts it is a reddifh afh-co- lour. The tail is long, the hairs on the middle is foft, and coarfe, black, and long on the fides. The hoofs are fmall; the feet flat, divided above, but not through. The bottom of the feet is exceffively tough, yet pliant. There are fix cal- Jofities on the legs, one on each knee; one on the inficle of each fire-leg, on the upper joint; one on the infide of the hind- leg, at the bottom of the thigh; another on the lower part of the breaft, the places that the animal reds on when it lies down; Pennant11 Sjnopf. of Q/nJ. p. 60. In Greek, Kru.r, Xo; Bainvi, -; in Latin, Camilla; in Italian, C.amtla; in Spanilh, Ca;ntla in German, Keemel; in Hebrew, Carnal; in Clia'dcan, Gamaln; in ancient Arabic, dnal; in modern Arabic, Gimtl; in French, Chatneau. From thefe denomination?, it .ippe.irs, that the name of this animal hns been adopted into modern languages, with little variation, from the ancient Hebrew, Chaldean, and Arabic. Camelas long previous to the records of hiftory. The chief, and perhaps the only fenfible character…
