| Show tim THE HORSE hokse HO ASE NOT originally INTO AMERICA roa moa ta THE ae easy EAST E istl it is well known to our readers that professor holmes of the college of charleston has been for many years engaged in exploring the fossil beds of ashley river A large larg number of interesting reiles relics have baie been collected and aud the savans of europe and amelica america have hlad expressed their great satisfaction at the re saih salti of tasse th explorations probes professor cor zor agassiz Aga asiz in a lecture some time since blat t df after ter ten a visit la lor the tha ashley with professor I 1 JL said it was the greatest depository depositor of fossil remains lie he had ever seen Prof professor esso r called it the great shark s sepulchre of america and now professor Le idythe distinguished amer ian aaa an anatomist has lias prepared a valuable paper on the remains of the horse and other otner animals found fossil on tile ille ashley which had been placed in his hii bands hands for examination by professor holmes and it will app artrow ar from the thep hort chort extract we make that hat the investigations now being mad mada 1 in t this 1 ils lis department part ment of natural aci ici science erice are developing some curious thins things professor leidy writes Q regard lo 10 the remains of the horse from tho the I 1 facts facia stated la in the tho accounts givan gi en in them in the tha succeeding pages 1 I think thin thinkie kit it allibe will be that this animal inhabited the ibe united states during in nie hie post period with the he inas mastodon todon and the great broad fronted bison lson ison char mercury jan K 4 |
