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for the series of days announces tliat 15 days have ehipsed and that 33 

 are yet to ehipse. Here. too. the cardinal points, west-south, are 

 appropriate. 



On the same page, 18a, at the top. a woman hears in hei- Iiands the 

 signs for both cardinal points, above which our sign once more 

 appears. The glyphs belonging to it are ert'aced, and nothing can be 

 determined from the series of days. 



The next page, 10c, again shows the signs west-south on the back of 

 a woman, with our sign combined with these in the glyphs. 



Very peculiarly combined with the west and the sign cimi, but 

 varying somewhat from its usual form, it appears on page 8c in the 

 first row of glyplis. 



We haA'e still to consider pages 4(5 to 50, on which we should expect 

 to find this sign l)efore all. as here terrestrial and Venus years are 

 made to accord. We find it at once on page 4() in the last place in the 

 lowest line. The date 2. 17 month, ought to be here, but the writer 

 lias placed the little cross between the two dots of the "2, possibly to 

 indicate that a Venus year of 584 days closes here. On the right of 

 the same page the line before the last again begins Avith our sign, as if 

 to join it to the passage already mentioned. If this belongs, as it 

 seems to do, to the third roAV of calendar dates, then it certainly coin- 

 cides with a transition from tlie Kun to the Muluc years. 



The next three pages lack this glyph. l)ut on page 50 it occurs 

 almost in the same place in which we found it on page 4(5 (on the 

 right side, the first sign in the lowest row), here again combined with 

 the glyphs for west and south where the fifth Venus year has ex- 

 pired concurrently with the eighth terrestrial year, although not 

 exactly at the close of the latter. 



So much for the cross between two dots. The dot between two 

 crosses, which also occurs, seems, on the contrary, not to belong here. 

 One dot with one cross might easily be an abbreviation for the 

 n.umeral 2(). 



We now come to another sign for year, but which is, as T must 

 state at once, that for the old official year of 860 daj^s, which does not 

 include the 5 unlucky days intercalated at its close. I mean the 

 glyph U which sometimes has three dots as a suffix, sometimes with 

 other api)endices. I shall in future call it the 360 sign for the sake of 

 brevity. 



Turning next to pages 25 to 28 of the manuscript, which assuredly 

 treat of the change of years, we find this sign on each of them below 

 on the left, instead of the pile of stones on which the gods of the year 

 were placed at the close of the year. It also occurs on every page in 

 tlie row of glyphs which divides the second section from the third, 

 even twice on page 27. It appears also in the partially obliterated 

 upper lines of pages 26 to 28, on page 26 actually three times, once 



