. Tribune popular science . than would be at first sup-posed. The horse of Europe was probably cotem-porary with the earliest man, and there are traces ofthe existence of that animal among some of themost ancient relics of the cave-dwellers. In thecavern of La Madelaine, Dordogne, France, amongremains of pre-histuric man of the flintperiod, the antler of a reindeer waafound having seven figures of horses carvedupon it. Coarsely executed though they are, therecan bo no question as to what these flint carvingswere intended to represent. These are horses—notasses, nor of the ass family, since the
. Tribune popular science . than would be at first sup-posed. The horse of Europe was probably cotem-porary with the earliest man, and there are traces ofthe existence of that animal among some of themost ancient relics of the cave-dwellers. In thecavern of La Madelaine, Dordogne, France, amongremains of pre-histuric man of the flintperiod, the antler of a reindeer waafound having seven figures of horses carvedupon it. Coarsely executed though they are, therecan bo no question as to what these flint carvingswere intended to represent. These are horses—notasses, nor of the ass family, since the ears are short,none of the tails arc tufted, and one of the tails cer-tainly indicates by its thickness that it had theabundant long hair covering it which distinguishesthe horse. It is not at all* likely that the cave-dwelling man held the horsa in subjection; it wasprobably one of the animals which ho hunted; akind ol venison among game which included theauroch and the cave bear, the reindeer, and perhapstho SKETCH OK A HORSE BY PREHISTORIC MAN. Did the horse exist in America after the advent ofman, and become extinct between that period and ANOTHER PREHISTORIC SKETCH. But Brigham Young has hailed the discovery offossil horses in America as an evidence of the truth-fulness of the sacred writings of tho ago, in a discussion in England, the represen-tative of the Mormons was worsted in argumentupon the point that these writings make the blunderof describing horses as existing in America coevalwith man, but prior to the advent of the may be other instances in the Mormon Bible,but the following will serve to illustrate the point:The book of Ether describes a pciiod subse-quent to the building of the tower of Babel. Itgives the particulars of construction, under divinecommand, of a number of covered barges, exceed-ing tight, that would hold water like a dish,each provided with an air-hole in tho top, closedwith a stopper, to be opened wh
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