.-Workmen engaged in making a lily pond ! at Maple -Avenue, Bishop's Stortford (says tho "St. James's Budget"), camo upon "a skeleton only 2i feet below tho, surface; which ,is believed to be ths\t of a prehistoric; horso. The Roy. A. Irving; D.Sc.,' a well-known goologist, who was sent for, found tho remains ombedded in pliocene clay, which had wonderfully preserved them. Thero'' were 17: ribs, as compared with tho present-day 'horse's 16,; the hoofs were small, and the jaws large. In his opinion the aninial was :£he. forerunner. ;qf_-thd.: Horse;'"andi thd.vbones being ; in-lihe''pli6c'ene s cliy- : d6tß2'theni' as of the prfr-glacuU period, ' ; ■ *
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 573, 30 July 1909, Page 4
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101Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 573, 30 July 1909, Page 4
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