THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. 



THE HORSE. 



IN almost every region of the globe, not only on its sur- 

 face, but at different depths beneath it, the history of the 

 horse is recorded. 



" Fossil remains," says Colonel Hamilton Smith in the twelfth 

 volume of the Naturalist's Library, " of the horse have been found 

 in nearly every part of the world. His teeth lie in the Polar ice 

 along with the bones of the Siberian mammoth ; in the Himalaya 

 mountains with lost, and but recently obtained, genera; in the 

 caverns of Ireland ; and, in one instance, from Barbary, completely 

 fossilized. His bones, accompanied by those of the elephant, 

 rhinoceros, tiger, and hyama, rest by thousands in the caves in 

 Constadt ; in Sevion at Argenteuil with those of the mastodon ; in 

 Val d'Arno and on the borders of the Khine with colossal urus." 



But what is most deserving of attention is that while all 

 the other genera and species, found under the same con- 

 ditions, have either ceased to exist, or have removed to 

 higher temperatures, the horse alone has remained to the 

 present time in the same regions, without, it would 

 appear, any protracted interruption; fragments of his 

 skeleton continuing to be traced upwards, in successive 



