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in each case the Initial-series number here recorded may be reduced 

 to units of the 1st order, as follows: 



9X144,000 = 1,296,000 

 9X 7,200= 64,800 

 16 X 360= 5,760 



OX 20 = 



OX 1= 



1, 366, 560 



Deducting from tliis number all the Calendar Rounds possible, 72 

 (see Table XVI), it maybe reduced to zero, since 72 Calendar Rounds 

 contain exactly 1,366,560 units of the first order. See the preliminary 

 rvde on page 143. 



Applying rules 1, 2, and 3 (pp. 139, 140, and 141) to the remainder, 

 that is, 0, the terminal date of the Initial Series will be found to be 

 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu, exactly the same as the starting point of Maya 

 chronology. This must be true, since counting forward from the 

 date 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu, the date 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu will be reached. 

 Instead of recording this date immediately below the last period of 

 its Initial-series number, that is, the kins, it was written below the 

 number just to the left. The terminal date of the Initial Series we 

 are discussing, therefore, is 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu, and it is recorded just 

 to the left of its usual position in the lower left-hand corner of plate 

 31. The coefficient of the day sign, 4, is effaced but the remaining 

 parts of the date are perfectl}^ clear. Compare the day sign Ahau 

 with the corresponding form in figure 17, c' , d' , and the month sign 

 Cumhu with the corresponding form in figure 20, z-h' . The Initial 

 Series here recorded is therefore 9.9.16.0.0 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu. Just 

 to the right of this Initial Series is another, the number part of which 

 the student will readily read as follows: 9.9.9.16.0. Treating this 

 in the usual way, it may be reduced thus: 



9X144,000 = 1,296,000 

 9X 7,200= 64,800 

 9X 360= 3,240 



16 X 20= 320 



OX 1= 



1,364,360 



Deducting from this number all the Calendar Rounds possible, 71 

 (see Table XVI), it maybe reduced to 16,780. Applying to this 

 number rules 1, 2, and 3 (pp. 139, 140, and 141, respectively), its 

 terminal date will be found to be 1 Ahau 18 Kayab ; this date is 

 recorded just to the left below the kin place of the 'preceding Initial 



