of Horses and Wild Boars, %\1 



ijiem most assuredly in the same strata which contain un- 

 known an inn al 3. 



We have already said that there were thousands of horses' 

 teeth in the celebrated depot of bones of elephants, rhino- 

 ceroses, tiy^ers, and hyaena^, discovered in 1700 near Can- 

 Stadt in Wirtcniberg: their association , with the elephants 

 seemed to be a general occurrence. 



We have seen wjth our own eyes hundreds of bones 

 and teeth of horses dug up from the canal of the Ourcq, 

 in the spot from. which elephanis' bones also had beea 

 taken ; and among the horses* bones there were some com-; 

 pletely peirlfied. 



In the quarry of Fouvent le Prieure, in the department of 

 the Haute-Saone, from which bones oi elephants and of 

 hyaenas have been procured, several bones and teeth of 

 horses were at the same time found, which have been also 

 sent to our Museum. 



M. de Dree is in possession of a piece of a horse's jaw 

 found at Argenteuii, nearly in the same spot wiih an ele- 

 phant's jaw. 



M. Fabbroni has sent me drawings of several similar 

 portions dug up in the upper Vdl d'Arno, with bones of 

 elephants, rhinoceroses, and mastodonti with straight teeth. 



Fmally, M. Fischer has procured me scmie drawings of 

 horses' teeth brought from the Bergstrasse, and jilaced in 

 the Cabinet of Darmstadt. 



I am convinced from these observations, that if we have 

 not more frequently heard of horses' bones dug up with 

 those of elephants, it has arisen from the former having 

 been regarded as less interestmg. 



We shall not repeat what we have said of those which 

 we sometimes find in osseous strata : but it is in recent al- 

 hivialions that most of them are found, as might reasonably 

 be expected. 



There is scarcely any valley into which we can dig in any 

 direction, without finding horses'bones in the depositations 

 made by rivers : the valley of the Seine, that of the Somme, 

 and without doubt several others, are full of them, 

 , M. Traulle sent me several specimens from the banks 

 of the Somme ; aud I have seen them myself dug up from 

 the foundations of the bridge now constructing opposite 

 the Military School. 



These last are not interesting, because they have been de- 

 posited since our continents assumed their present form : 

 the former, however, being those which accompany the 

 l)ones of elephants and tigers^ are of an anterior order of 



things. 



