. A dictionary of the Bible .. . sense the word may be referred to the Arabic ^ sella camelina, aXds, cum apparatu suo (Freytag, s. d.).See figures iu Pococke, Descript. Orient, i. tab. 58. D 2 xxxvi CAMEL states that some of the women about Aleppo arccommonly stowed, when on a journey, on each sidea mule in a sort of covered cradles. The species of camel which was in common useamongst the Jews and the heathen nations of Pales-tine is the Arabian or one-humped camel (CamebisArabicus). The dromedary is a swifter animal. Arabian Camel. tliau th^ baggage-camel, and is used chiefly forriding pui-p
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . sense the word may be referred to the Arabic ^ sella camelina, aXds, cum apparatu suo (Freytag, s. d.).See figures iu Pococke, Descript. Orient, i. tab. 58. D 2 xxxvi CAMEL states that some of the women about Aleppo arccommonly stowed, when on a journey, on each sidea mule in a sort of covered cradles. The species of camel which was in common useamongst the Jews and the heathen nations of Pales-tine is the Arabian or one-humped camel (CamebisArabicus). The dromedary is a swifter animal. Arabian Camel. tliau th^ baggage-camel, and is used chiefly forriding pui-poses, it is merely a finer breed than theother : the Arabs call it the Heine. The speed ofthe dromedary has been greatly exaggerated, theArabs asserting that it is swifter than the horse;eight or nine miles an hour is the utmost it is ableto perform, this pace, however, it is able to keep upfor hours together. The Bactrian camel {CamelusBactrianus), the only other known species, has two
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