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sest/lrtlikfanrrnablijf 1 '' 3 ^ time , s Euro P e P~- 
Hipparion), and although the connection* bet* 1 subse< l u enUy 
horse and these horse-like anTmals of the T T the present 
called in question bv manv i Me 1 1 } i G ^ ertl . anes Is still 
the beginning of the Dihivini a - ^ ate ^ certain that since 
bited by wild horses which ’ FT? Eul i° pe has been inha ‘ 
E quits caballus and which cannot 1 6 z °o*°S'oally referred to 
from the dom^c hT^of Z d ^ ^ 7 diStin § Uisbed 
whfch have teetllormed"^^ ° f h ° rSeS in raost ^posits 
Tertiary period We find ? h ? m U1 '° pe S,nC f the end of the 
find them in those deDosits of th ri Pf e 'S lacla f strata : we 
formed at som^nT fitttTg^c K ^ "S™ 
where the existence nf + i, Q i giaueis, i.e., districts 
unfavourable circumstances wTfi^ r^' 6 du ™S such 
numerously in ‘ ema ! ns v ery 
caverns, &c.) ; and we find Hi Pm W’ ln , t , Loess > in many 
certain peat-moors, among the “ ’pHe-b ^ddL^^ndTn’t “ 
merous pre-hrstorical burial-places In shnrfth • ? u ' 
of horses in Europe-and esp P ec“lty in C ntrai E “ T 
b r“l b 
In leply Nehring admits that, in the days of Casar and 
Tacitus, the modern cultivated countries of Cental 5 
Western Europe were covered with vast forests and ^ 
tended swam P s,-a fan established not merely bv hSl,”! 
testimony, but by the remains of the Flora and P ^ 
to -e t 1 llc anclent forests and morasses are often supposed 
to have been more extended than was really the case PP Rm 
those so-called primeval forests have not* existed alvtt 
During the Diluvial period, and especially during the Glacial 
epoch, there occurred for thousands of years awidesnread 
ami in‘°t n h fi th r foreStS - T ° Wards tbe “ d of tba Ice Age 
existed n Cent ?°p 0nS ° f “ ,e P ost 'S lacia l time, thfre 
covered onl^with r^sTd 
Germany!” 6 Di ‘ UVia ‘ ^ ^ the *>"“ ^ 
Those thinly-wooded, steppe-like, districts of the Diluvial 
A b e weie the resort of many thousands of wild horses 
may be seen from the vast quantity of fossil horse-bones 
