Note 066
The difference between the two races consists
in one or two humps; the dromedary has only one; the size of
the proper camel is larger; the country he comes from,
Turkistan or Bactriana; the dromedary is confined to Arabia
and Africa. Buffon, Hist. Naturelle, tom. xi. p. 211, &c.
Aristot. Hist. Animal. tom. i. l. ii. c. 1, tom. ii. p.
185.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 46