Nature Displayed in the Heavens, and on the Earth, According to the Latest Observations and Discoveries Volume 4

by Simeon Shaw

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 ...at first sight by the two lumps on the upper part of its body. One of these, which is situated on the shoulders, usually falls somewhat on one side when the animal is fat, and the other, which is situated at a little distance behind, is generally upright. This species is usually larger than the dromedary; its legs are shorter in proportion to the size of its body, its pace is more slow, its muzzle larger and more swollen or inflated, and its hair more brown. The Bactrian camel is, at the present day, found in the same places where it was observed by the ancients, VOL. II. x namely in Usbec Tartary, which was the ancient Bactrim It is likewise found in Thibet, and near the frontiers of China. Professor Pallas assures us, that there are in the neighbourhood of China, wild camels, which are larger and much more courageous than those bred up in confinement. The animals of the present species are exclusively employed as beasts of burthen throughout the whole of these regions. They are capable of supporting even a more rigorous climate since the Mongol Tartars have conveyed them even to the environs of the lake Baikal, in Siberia, where they subsist, during winter, on the bark and tender branches of the birch and other trees; a kind of food on which, however, they become lean and much emaciated. On the contrary, in the southern parts of Persia, in Arabia and Egypt, the camels employed in labour are those which have only a single hunch; whilst those with two hunches are reared merely as objects of curiosity. The Bactrian camels are in every respect better adapted to live in temperate climates than the dromedary; and particularly it has been remarked that they are much better able to pass through humid and marshy countries than these. It is said that the Bactrian c...

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Published January 1, 2012