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THE HORSE 



preserved remains of animals with this structure of foot 

 have been met with abundantly at Pikermi, in Greece, 

 and also in most of the deposits of corresponding age in 

 the southern parts of France and Germany. Their former 

 existence in England is only attested by scanty fragments 



Fig. 5.— Side and front view of the bones of the left fore- 

 foot of Hipparion. Letters as in fig. 4. s, and s r , upper 

 and lower sesamoid bones. (From Gaudry.) 



found in the red crag of Suffolk. Horses, or rather 

 horse-like creatures, with this structure of feet were no 

 longer met with when the Pleistocene, or latest geological 

 period, set in ; but then, for the first time, appeared the 

 true horse, in its development exactly or very nearly as 



