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The horse from Solutre, and the thick-boned 

 animal of Central Germany, are two local races 

 very nearly related, but yet distinguishable. There 

 is another race which has been found most com- 

 plete round about Schussenried in south-western 

 Wiirtemberg ; it has been described by the eminent 

 man of science, Fraas, who also gives an account of 

 many of the other Diluvial inhabitants of that dis- 

 trict. This horse is distinguished by its compara- 

 tively broad forehead and by the gracefulness of its 

 limbs, arid hence agrees in important points with 

 the Oriental domestic horse. Now there have been 

 discovered in many of the prehistoric deposits of 

 the Bronze period, the remains of a tamed, thin- 

 boned horse, which has universally been supposed 

 to be of Asiatic origin. It cannot well be doubted 

 that this horse was imported by the tribes that 

 overran Europe from the East; yet it is equally 

 possible and probable, that a portion of the slimmer, 

 tamed horses of the Bronze period had been pro- 

 duced through the taming of the broad-browed 

 Diluvial horse of South Germany. 



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The circumstances of nutrition which determine 

 the general character of the dentition and of the 



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