. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. with young about nine months, and to produce sometimes two at a birth : the young is of the colour of a fawn. 7384. The a
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. with young about nine months, and to produce sometimes two at a birth : the young is of the colour of a fawn. 7384. The above and various other species of antelopes might probably be acclimated and introduced in parks as objects of luxury. The cultivator who first succeeded in breeding them would find an ample demand at his own price if they happened to come in vogue. 7385. The camel (^melus i.) is a germs of which there are several species, three of which, tlie drometlary, or Arabian camel {,fig- 915.), the Bactrian camel, and the lama or Peruvian sheep, might cerfcdnly be partially acclimated in England, as the first is in Italy. (297.) They live upon a very little of the coarsest herbage ; might have a warm house well littered to retire to in winter, or in cold nights, and would fonii a singular ornament to park scenery. Be- sides their hair and«6kin are valuable, and they might be sold perhaps to romantic tra- vellers or cavalier quacks. 7386. The lama (Camelus Glama L., Jig. 916.) is the camel of South America; and appears to hold a middle place between the sheep, deer, and camel. 7387. Before the entrance of the Spaniards, lamas were the only beasts of burden known to the South Americans. Like camels, they travel slowly, but are persevering, tractable, and very sure-footed. Since the introduction of mule.«, they are much less cultivated j but before they were depended on to carry the ores dug out of the rich mines ot Potosi. The lama is furnished as the camel with ability to abstain from
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