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the left-hand edge of the various chiffres are also conventions for older 
forms. It is to be noted that these balls always occur on the left hand 
of the hieroglyphs, except in one case, the chiffre 1975 in the Palenque 
cross tablet, on which the left-hand acolyte stands. 
The conclusion that the two series are both written on the same sys- 
tem, and that like chiffres occurring at the two places are synonyms, 
will, I think, be sufficiently evident to any one who will himself exam- 
ine the following cases. It is the natwre of the agreements which proves 
the thesis, and not the number of cases here cited. The reader will re- 
-member that the Copan series comprises Plates I to XXIII, inclusive ; 
the Palenque series, Plate XXIV and higher numbers. 
The sign of the group of Mexican gods who relate to hell, z. e., a cirele 
with a central dot, and with four small segments cut out at four equally 
distant points of its cireumference, is found in No. 4291, Plate XXII, 
and in many of the Palenque plates, as Plate LVI, Nos. 2090, 2073, 
2045, 2021, ete. In both places this sign is worn by human figures just 
below the ear. 
The same sign occurs as an important part of No. 4271, Plate XXII, 
and No. 4118, Plate XIII (Copan), and No. 2064, Plate LVI (Palenque), 
etc. 
No. 7, Plate V*, and No. 1969, Plate LVI, I regard as absolutely iden- 
tical. These are both human figures. No. 12, Plate V*, and No. 637, 
Plate LIL, are probably the same. These probably represent or relate 
to the long-nosed divinity, YACATEUCTLI, the Mexican god of commerce, 
ete., or rather to his Maya representative. 
The sign of TLALOG, or rather the family of TLALOCs, the gods of rain, 
floods, and waters, is an eye (or sometimes a mouth), around which there 
isa double line drawn. I take No. 26, Plate V*, of the Copan series, 
and Nos. 154 and 165, Plate XXIV, to be corresponding references to 
members of this family. No. 4, Plate V*, and No. 155 also correspond. 
No. 4242, Plate X XI, is probably related to No. 53, Plate XXIV and 
its congeners. 
Nos. 14 and 34, Plate V*, are clearly related to No. 900, Plate LIV, 
Nos. 127 and 176, Plate XXIV, No. 3010, Plate LVI, and many others. 
Plate IlI* of Copan is evidently identically the same as the No. 75 
of the Palenque Plate No. XXIV. 
The right half of No. 27, Plate V*, is the same as the right half of Nos. 
3020, 3040, and many others of Plate LVI. 
No. 17, Plate V*, is related to No. 2051, Plate LVI, and many others 
like it. 
The major part of No. 4105, Plate XIII, is the same as No. 124, Plate 
XXIV, ete. 
Itis not necessary to add a greater number of examples here. Thecard- 
catalogue which I have mentioned enables me to at once pick out all the 
cases of which the above are specimens, taken just as they fell under 
my eye in rapidly turning over the cards. They therefore represent the 
