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near Magdeburg, and at Thiede in Brunswick 

 tallies in all characteristic features with the heavy 

 Occidental horse. Hence it had not been introduced, 

 but had been tamed and reared by our ancestors 

 from the wild race which they found there. This 

 narrow-browed animal lived also on the Ehine, in 

 the neighbourhood of Eemagen ; * in the form of 

 its skull and the rims round the eye-cavities it 

 resembles our old medium-sized lowland races.' 



Nehring sums up his views regarding the Ger- 

 man Diluvial horse and its relation to the present 

 tamed and wild races, in the following passage of 

 general interest : ' The Diluvial horse of our 

 country, like that of the neighbouring European 

 lands, was an untamed, wild animal which roamed 

 about, and seems to have lived in especially large 

 numbers in the districts round the Hartz Moun- 

 tains. These districts, during one distinctly longer 

 division of the Diluvial period, possessed a vegeta^- 

 tion of the steppe species and a corresponding 

 climate. The forest had become greatly reduced 

 during the Ice period (i.e. the first ice period, if we 

 are to admit of there having been two). On these 

 steppe-like tracts wild horses lived in large herds, 

 together with jerboas, steppe-susliks, logamys, hare- 

 rats, numerous wild mice, and other characterise 

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