The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . e want of sustenance under fa-tigue and scarcity; thus giving an extra stock offood without eating, till by exhaustion the skinof the prominences, instead of standing up, fallsover, and hangs like empty bags on the side ofthe dorsal ridge. To these endowments are addeda lofty stature and great agility; eyes that dis-cover minute objects at a distance; a sense ofsmelling of prodigious acu
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . e want of sustenance under fa-tigue and scarcity; thus giving an extra stock offood without eating, till by exhaustion the skinof the prominences, instead of standing up, fallsover, and hangs like empty bags on the side ofthe dorsal ridge. To these endowments are addeda lofty stature and great agility; eyes that dis-cover minute objects at a distance; a sense ofsmelling of prodigious acuteness—ever kept in astate of sensibility by the animals power of clos-ing the nostrils to exclude the acrid particles ofthe sandy deserts; a spirit, moreover, of pa-tience, not the result of fear, but of forbearance,carried to the length of self-sacrifice in the prac-tice of obedience; a dense wool, to avert the solarheat and nightly cold, while on the animal, and toclothe and lodge his master when the existence of the camel immense por-tions of the surface of the earth would be unin-habitable and even impassable. Surely the Arabsare right: Jobs beast is a monument of Bactrian Camel. 2. Different Kinds. The two species are:(1) Bactrian. The Bactrian camel (camelusDactriaiuis of authors) is large and robust; natur-ally with two hunches, and originally a native ofthe highest tablelands of Central Asia, where evennow wild individuals may be found. The speciesextends through China, Tartary and Russia and isprincipally imported across the mountains intoAsia Minor, Syria and Persia. It is also constitutes the brown Taous varietyof single-hunched Turkish or Toorkee camels CAM ML 328 CAMEL commonly seen at Constantinople, there being avery ancient practice among breeders of extirpat-ing with a knife the foremost hunch of the animalsoon after birth, thereby procuring more space forthe pack-saddle and load. It seems that this modeof
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