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As I cannot repeat here, without occupying too much space, the 

 method of finding the years, I must refer the reader to Study Manuscript 

 Troano, p. 23, et al. Hunting them out, by using our Table III, we find 

 them to be as follows: 



If we turn now to Table XVII (Study Manuscript Troano p. 41), we 

 will find that these are precisely the counted years (those in the space 

 inclosed by the dotted lines) in Ahau number VI. 



If we assume the month to be the 11th then the numbers of the 

 Ahaues will correspond exactly with the numbers of the columns of our 

 Table V. 8 



As it may be supposed that using the same numeral to any five days 

 of the twenty in this way will produce a similar result, let us test it by 

 an example. For this purpose we select the same column of our fore- 

 going table, No. V — that with the number 1 prefixed — Cib, Ahau, Kan, 

 Lamat, Eb, but in place of Lamat we insert Cimi. Hunting out the 

 years as heretofore we find them to be as follows : 



If we try to locate these years in an Ahau in Table XVII (Study Man- 

 uscript Troano p. 44), we shall find it impossible to do so, nor can we 

 locate them in any table that can be made which has either twenty-four 

 or twenty years in an Ahau, while on the other hand the twenty years 

 obtained by using a column of the table from the Codex Peresianus 

 can be located in some one of the Ahanes obtained by any division of 

 the Grand Cycle into consecutive groups of twenty-four years that ion 

 be made. It would require too much space to prove this assertion, but 

 any one who doubts its correctness can test it. 



As the extract we have given from the Codex Peresianus relates only 

 to one of the four groups of days — that on the right of the quadrilat- 

 eral — 1 will supply in the following tables, Xos. VII, VIII, and IX. the 

 arrangement of the groups of the other three sides; adding the other 

 (Table VI), also, so as to bring the four together in the order of the 

 sides of the quadrilateral, commencing with the line on the right, next 

 the upper one, and so on. 



While this is undoubtedly the order iu which they are to be taken; 

 which is the pi - oper one to commence with? is a question yet to be dis- 

 cussed. 



8 An illustration can be seen on pp. 36-40, Study Manuscript Troano. 



