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endar, commencing with Kan, writing them in four columns, placing 

 one name in each in succession, thus: 



If we commence with any other day the groups will contain respect- 

 ively the same days, as, for example, if we begin with Ymix as here 

 shown (Table IV). 



As I am inclined to believe the author of the plate adopted this order 

 I shall use and refer to this table in speaking of these groups. 



Examining the live names in the third column we find they are the 

 same as those in the bottom line of the quadrilateral of the plate, and 

 also in the same order. Those of the second column are the same as 

 those in the left column of the plate, though not precisely in the same 

 order; those in the first column the same as those in the top line of the 

 plate, except that in our column we have Caban in place of Eb ; and 

 those in the fourth column the same as those in the right column of the 

 plate, except that in our column we have Eb instead of Caban. I am 

 satisfied, therefore, that the artist who made the plate has transposed 

 the characters Eb and Caban ; that in place of Eb, the left-hand char- 

 acter of the upper line, there should be Cabau, and in place of Caban, 

 the middle character of the right column, there should be Eb, and have 

 made this change in my scheme (Fig. 2) and in Plate II. 



This, I admit, has the appearance of making an arbitrary change to 

 suit a theory; but besides the strong evidence in favor of this change 

 shown by the arrangement of the days in four columns just given, I 

 propose to present other testimony. 



That the characters here interpreted Eb and Caban are the same as 

 those given by Landa, and in the Manuscript Troano we have positive 

 evidence in the tortous line in the outer space, of which we have already 

 given an explanation. Hence there is no escape from the difficulty by 

 supposing the artist had reversed the characters in their reference to 

 the names. Either he has reversed them as to place, or we are mis- 

 taken in our supposition as to how the four groups were obtained. 



