Note 066
From Chapter 46 of the Decline & Fall

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, etc. Aristot. Hist. Animal. tom. i. l. ii. c. 1, tom. ii. p. 185.

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