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Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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long its many links from the most distant, theEohippus of the Lower Eocene, to the modern horse found in recentgeological deposits. 514 THE HORSES POSITION IN THE ANIMAL WORLD For the rest of the story of the horse no further demand will be madeon the readers patience or imagination. An active or perhaps a despairingmind may indulge in gloomy anticipations of a time when the Equuscahallus, no longer necessary for man, will gradually disappear, and beknown to future enquirers only through the science of paleontology. SKULLS OF SOME ANCESTORS OF THE HORSE 1. Protoidliippus venticolus. 2. Mesohippus Bairdi. 3. Hipparion gracilis. 4. Onohippidium Munizi (an extinct South American horse). 5. Arab Horse. A is a cavity for a face gland, and is very marked inHipparion (3) and Onohippidium (4), while a vestigeof it remains in the Arab horse (.5). It is absentfrom some breeds of living horses. B is the remarkably long nasal slit which is a verynoticeable feature of Onohippidium (4). PLATE LXXIl
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SKULLS OF SOME ANCESTORS OF THE HORSE THE HISTORY OF THE HORSE Section XV-THE HISTORY OF THE HORSE HORSES OF THE PAST Mention of the horses existence is to be found in Chinese tradition,which records that during the reign of Hwang-te, who lived before theflood, Chariots, horses, and bullocks began to be used, and that thesame emperor extricated his army when bewildered in a mist throughthe agency of a magnetic pole attached to his chariot, which alwayspointed to the south. The ancient Chinese work known as the Shoo-King speaks of Yaou, wholived before and after the flood, as riding in a crimson chariot drawn bywhite horses; and Yu, the person employed by Yaou in perfecting thegreat work of removing the flood and restoring order to the empire, thusnarrates how he accomplished the task: The deluge rose high and spreadwide as the spacious vault of heaven, buried hills and covered mountainsAvith its waters, into which the common people, astonished to stupefaction,sank. I travelled on dry

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