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not, as on our fragment VIII (plate xrii), on the upper boundary as 

 well. 



There is still another document on the left side of which persons are 

 depicted and, opposite them, the fields belonging to them, in the same 

 way as in our fragment. This is page 34 of the Goupil-Boban atlas. 

 Here, too, as in the Vergara codex, the dimensional figures are on onh^ 

 two sides of the square. But, as in our fragment (plate xiii), hiero- 

 glyphs are drawn on the upper Ijoundary of the fields, or beside it, 

 and there are additional designations which make it evident that these 

 hieroglyphs represent the name of the field or piece of arable land. 





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Fkj. 4r>. Mexican glyphs denotiha; various olileots. 



Moreover, the word chinamitl, '' inclosed field ", or milli, "" arable 

 land ", is often quite superfluously written beside them (see d, e, /, 

 figure 45). 



Comparison with these manuscripts, I think, leaves no room for 

 doubt as to the general meaning of our fragment VIII (plate xiii). I 

 will now resume the discussion of its separate features. 



The dimensional numbers, which are written on four sides of the 

 fields, are, as I have already said, the same on the two opposite sides. 

 Their construction and characteristic features are exactly the came 

 as those which we have already seen in the plan of the city of Tez- 

 cuco on fragment VI (plate xi) of our collection. There, as here, 



