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and did not correspond with the number in a mouth, but was limited 

 to thirteen. To illustrate this, a list of the days of one month, num- 

 bered according to this method, commencing with 1 Kan (see table 4) 

 is introduced. 



Table 4. 

 Days of thk Month. 



As will be seen on inspection of this table, the year in this instance 

 commences with Kan, the other nineteen days, following in regular 

 order as heretofore given, numbered consecutively from one to thirteen, 

 then commencing again with one, the month ending with 7 Akbal. 

 The second month. Ho, begins with 8 Kan ; the day numbered 13 is now 

 Muluc, and is followed by 1 Oc, and so on to the end of the year. 

 The last day of Cumhu in this case (in which the year begins with 1 

 Kan) will be 9 Akbal, and the last of the five intercalary days will be 

 1 Lamat; it follows, therefore, that the first day of the next year will 

 be 2 Muluc. Running through this second year in the same way, com- 

 mencing it with 2 Muluc, followed by 3 Oc, 4 Chuen, and so on, it is 

 found that the third year will begin with 3 Ix; continuing this process, 

 it may be ascertained that the fourth year will commence with 4 Cauac, 

 the fifth with 5 Kan, the sixth Avith G Muluc, the seventh with 7 Ix, the 

 eighth with 8 Cauac, the ninth with 9 Kan, the tenth with 10 Muluc, 

 the eleventh with 11 Ix, the twelfth with 12 Cauac, the thirteenth with 

 13 Kan, the fourteenth with 1 Muluc, the fifteenth with 2 Ix, the six- 

 teenth with 3 Cauac, and so on. 



It is evident from this enumeration that no year, after the first, com- 

 mences with a day numbered 1 until thirteen have been completed, 

 thus forming a period of thirteen years, or, as it is designated, "A week 

 of years" or "Indiction." By continuing the above process, it is found 

 that no year will again commence with 1 Kan until 52 (or 13 by 4) are 

 completed. 



The accompanying table for one year (table 5) shows the order of 

 the numbers attached to the days. This, however, like table 3, com- 

 mences with what, in the usual method of counting, is the last instead 

 of the first day of the month — in this case Akbal instead of Kan is the 

 initial day. 



The object in view at present is to prove from the codices the follow- 

 ing points, viz, first,, that the year consisted of 365 days, which number 

 was made up by adding five days at the end of the eighteenth month; 

 second, that the four year-scries, commencing with the four difl'erent 



