: a larg group of giganl s s in.l 



.. r..:ni. r country - t firsl 



- greatlv doubted. •• thi ••• - mistakal 



r ,.„ - s I from the tarry . 

 lenied. 



Splint bones 



the many sp< ies :iud, th< horse has ontrib. 



ts shan I th< general subject of wonders. Tiu- specimens are fr _ 

 ments of h - th youus: and old, taken from the - it a depth 



ranging from five enty feel greater number of iudividv k 



- ither young or old, whieh is due to the inexperien - the young 



and the inability ' "he old. The specimens entition are either - 



immature, or :. s Tn with age that a satisfactory identification has 

 thus far been quite difficult and doubtful. The material thus far 

 obtained being quit.- fragmentary, specific identification has not 

 attempted. Th - - ' middle-aged forms is in harmony with 



reports from farmers in other parts I "ifornia. where th si '.-: is 



in the springs The ranchmen 



verv feeble animals among se caught. The young are 



_itened. and it is easy to understand how The sudden appears 

 ii in the midst of a herd would can- -impede, wh 



would likely result in one or more of thes shing into the pools of 



tar. This done, the result of one more fossil w - ble. 



■While the horses I und in our beds were tin - _ ' s, 



thev are not I >nsidered in any way related to the living hor- - 



or - s nnd running wild over the plains of Texas and the pan 



f S th America. These were doubtless of Spanish introduction. 

 rms w.>re the last remnant of that verv remark 

 race of horses I nnd first in the Unit Si - The real ancestor 

 of the horses found in the London clays of El - an animal 



about the - f a foi Very shortly after, this rind was du] 



in the dis the sime form in the Eocene B s the United 



St tea. These animals had four s in front and three behind, 



while a still earlier ancestor called Phanacodus had in each five 



s . It was from this little animal of th,- Tortiaries. that through 

 the subsequent aires longer and longer bones having fewer and fewer 



red. Thus from ace t- _ "he horse developed in - 

 and lost in t.«>s until we see the verv singular animal of the f< - 

 in the Brea s, a larszc strong, but single-toed animal 9 



upon tin- end of th,- too nail of the middle dig Vmcriea - 



t o be the home of the hors _ "he find is duplicated 



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