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Excerpt from The Camel: His Organization Habits and Uses The practicability and expediency of introducing the camel into the United States having long since engaged my attention as a problem of much economical interest, I availed myself of the facilities afforded by a late residence of some years in the Turkish empire, to investigate the subject more fully than it had been in my power to do in this country. Several months of travel in Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petraea and Syria, presented opportunities for a good deal of personal observation, and I occasionally saw the Turcoman camel, and others of northern breeds, employed at different points in Asia Minor, and sometimes at Constantinople. I also gathered such information as I was able by inquiry and correspondence, and by consulting the books of travel and natural history to which I had access. By these means, I arrived at a strong persuasion of the probable success of a judiciously conducted attempt to naturalize in the new world this oldest of domestic quadrupeds, and at the same time I collected most of the materials which compose the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."