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Show EXTINCTION OF EARLY EQUINES Much Mvalc-rv Siirrouiulii Dlnup-pcnraiue Dlnup-pcnraiue Ainrrkun llm-riv Allriliiiit-.t lv Snnm In liuri'unlii; Culil Over tbiee i-iMltlllles linn, lit the time of the Spanish i nll'in-M. there wan not to be luui, il In the in-w- World, Hi It I. a- hi" tl I'lin-'ii ally proved, a Mi ul. anliiuil thai ali-w I to the ib -h. -rlplioti ol the bnlM llnre. Inil I. which the Spnhl-li bioiiKht with them, w.-re nh'i i I lit III l III UK ill tenor IO tile I, ll He, who luok tl to !) tout b ci .1 Ml- p.-iualural I , . -1 nn i nine put n,-,.y to lllil III'- ( i it, 1 1 ll e I ill v Yet l. e- lit re- . arch by the Whltm y n,l-.-i.,ii l,. - I tabll-h. il In M.ml doubt that lon before be-fore fuluii, lins Hi- Ali en, a.- went oven mi by l,,,i-. from the limine tain of Ala U.i m tin- hluili- nl I'atu-Bni.ill. I'atu-Bni.ill. Miyi ll.il per' Weekly. Ill 1IO'. the e:.-,le,. ,l-i ovefy , ew .lelhi-y of an i ,i,iiic lo.-Ml of an nil known kind, b d in more methodical tmcsllnatlon of Ail' et leu. with the result re-sult that pie hlstiulc horse bone bine been found In t'nlltornla ami Or-ckihi: Or-ckihi: between the liulf of Mexl, o and the f'nii'llna. In Teii, I'lnrlila und the valley of Mexico: In tin- basin of tin) MlmlKali'pl und on the wetern lope nf the Mucky mountain HnrHca, 'too. Illllst have been nuiileloil 111 till lountry prevloua to the appearance nf luiiii. riiHeiii-i In s having linuiitht to I Hxlil Iholr ftmalllted remain mixed up with pottery and the atone arm of cave dwellera. How Ik ll. then, that the eipilne race, represented In Ainetlcu by kind of fiiM.ll coiiHlderably more iiutnetow ; than In Kiitope, came for n time to viiiilali from this country to reappear tlmllMUIiln of ceutui'le luler with tlin Spanlll eonijuet? Kit but a (-entry after t'ortps there were already In n ', lence In-ida of wild hures In the rigloti of Hie inula ami the prulrle of tho fnr wit. j My Koine l hi temporary extlnefeti , of the American Iioim. Iiiih been at-I at-I trlbiitcd to the Im-teaHliiK cold iiiiiI ii-cn, ii-cn, roa, hn nl of the glacial hemisphere. hemis-phere. It In certain that the elephant 1 and en I dlappeuri'd at the kiiiiiu ' Hi"-. Another explanation I that ih hot. inn cutnhed to a malady ui h ii 'the "rlmlerpiist" In South Afrlnt j Again, what bronchi about thi exo,lu limy poaalhly have been a specie of the prcentday Columbian vamplis bat. which mil k the life blood ol Ha ' victim, and In the tllKtrlila II Inle-K j pr-vonta the horae being iiHi',1 a s heat of burden. |