| CHAPTER X.
THE COMING OF THE EUROPEANS.
GREAT CHANGES PRODUCED.
THE coming of the Europeans to this country
brought new races not only of men, but also of
plants and animals, into contact and connection
with those previously existing here. 'The result
was that, in the course of two centuries, immense
changes were produced in the occupancy of the
country, new and higher forms that were intro-
duced from the old world superseding and dis-
placing the inferior and more imperfect ones which
before had possession of the new.
CHANGES IN RESPECT TO ANIMAL LIFE.
Some of the more remarkable of these changes
are well known. Others equally interesting, in a
philosophical point of view, but leading to results
less conspicuous, have not attracted so much atten-
tion. One very striking case is that of the horse.
Certain animals of this species escaped from the
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