which does honor to the able pen of its author—the camel, when full grown, is from eight to nine feet in height, and about ten or twelve feet in length; his body is small, in proportion to his height, and resembles in shape a goose more than any other animal, his neck being long and slender—he raises his head to the height of his back; his head is small, his ears short; his eyes are of various colours, bright, and sparkling with instinctive intelligence, and plac-ed on the sides of his head in such a manner, that he can see behind, and on every side at the same time. His tail is short, and hangs like that of a cow, with a small bunch of hair at the end; his legs are long and slender, though their joints are stout and strong; his feet are divided something like those of an ox; but he has no hoof except on the extreme points of the toes; in other parts they are only cov-ered with skin, and are soft and yielding; the soles of his feet are not thicker than stout sole leather; he is generally of a light ash color, but varying from that to a dark brown, and sometimes a reddish brown; many of them are also marked with white spots or stripes on their foreheads, and on different parts of their bodies; the hair on his body is short and fine, like the finest of wool, and serves the Arab instead of that necessary article with which they make their tent cloth and coarse covering; it is pull-ed or else falls off once a year; the hair about his throat and on the hump is eight or ten inches in length, and hangs down; he has a high bunch on his