FOSSIL HORSE. 391 
John Thompson, Esq., of Belfast. In sinking a well near 
Downpatrick, in the county of Down, two teeth were 
found in a stratum of gravel far below the present surface. 
A tooth was found at Newry under similar circumstances. 
In the county of Antrim teeth of the Horse have been 
found four feet below the surface in drift gravel near 
Belfast, and at the bottom of a turf-bog near Brough- 
shane. 
The more common species of fossil Horse from the drift 
formations and ossiferous caverns, which differs from the 
existing domestic Horse in its larger proportional head and 
jaws, resembling in that respect the Wild Horse, but 
apparently differimg in the transversely narrower form of 
certain molar teeth, may continue to be conveniently 
indicated by the name of Lquwus fossilis, the Latin synonyme 
of the ‘ cheval fossile’ of Cuvier. 
Fig. 149. Fig. 150. 
Astragalus of Rhinoceros, Astragalus of Hippopotamus, 
1 nat. size. 3 nat. size. 
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