THE HORSE IN AMERICA.
It has been generally believed that the horse was introduced in Amerioa by the Spanish. Professor Marsh, on the other hand, has found abundant remains of probable ancestors of the horse in our Western geological formations ; so that, if there were no horses before the Spaniards came, there must have occurred a failure of the race. Mr 33. li. Berthoud, of 3-olden, Colorado, believes that he has evidence that the Spaniards fonnd horses in Sonth America when they first visited it. Among the maps which he has reoently received from Paris, in a collection of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, is one which Sebastian Oabot drew for the Emperor Charles V., representing his explorations of the La Plata and Parana rivers, and containing symbols of the animals and plants that he found. Among these symbols was that of the horse, represented near the plains of the Grand Ohaco, where the immense herds of that animal range to-day. He claims that this affords a fair presumption of the native origin of the race, for neither the Spaniards nor the Portuguese had then been long enough in the oountry (in 1527) for their horses to have escaped from Peru to the head of the Paraguay and Parana rivers and to have increased in numbers sufficiently to attraot attention. —*• Popular Soienoe Monthly;"
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2633, 14 September 1882, Page 4
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223THE HORSE IN AMERICA. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2633, 14 September 1882, Page 4
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