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Show ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS. 73 teruidorus and Agatharchides of Cnidus, the Ailanitic Gulf of the Nabatheans was the home of the wild Arabian camel. (Ritter's Asien, bd. viii. s. 670, 672, and 746.) The discovery of fossil camel bones of the ancient world by Captain Cantley and Doctor Falconer, in 1 34, in the sub-Himalaya range of the Sewalik hills, is peculiarly deserving of nptice. These bones were found with other ancient bones of mastodons, of true elephants, of giraffes, and of a gigantic land tortoise (Colossochelys), twelve feet in length and six feet in height. (Humboldt, Cosmos, Engl. ed. vol. i. p. 268.) This camel of the Ancient World has received the name of Camelus sivalensis, but does not show any considerable difference from the still living Egyptian and Bactrian camels with one and two humps. Forty camels have very recently been introduced into Java, having been brought there from Teneri:lfe. (Singapore Journal of the Indian Archipelago, 1847, p. 206.) The first experiment has been made in Samarang. In like manner, reindeer have only been introduced into Iceland from Norway in the course of the last century. They were not found there when the island was settled, notwithstanding the proximity to East Greenland, and the existence of floating masses of ice. (Sartorius von Waltcrshausen physischgeographische Skizze von Island, 1847, s. 41.) (1°) p. 27.-" Between the Altai and the Kuen·lun/' The great highland, or as it is commonly called, the mountain plateau of Asia, which includes the lesser Bucharia, Songarei, Thibet, Tangut, and the Mogul country of the Ohalcas and Olotes, is situated between the 36th and 48th degrees of latitude, and the meridians of 81 o and 118° E. long. It is an etToneous view to represent this part of the interior of Asia as a single undivided mountainous gibbosity, continuous like the elevated plains of Quito and 1\Iexico, and elevated from seven to nine thousand feet above the level of the sea. That there is not in this sense any undivided mountain plateau in the interior of Asia, has already been shown by me, in my "Researches respecting the Mountains of Northern India." (Humboldt, Premier Memoire sur les Montagnes de l'Inde, in the Annales de Ohimie et de Physique, t. iii. 1816, p. 303; Second Memoire, t. xiv. 1820, pp. 5-55.) 7 |