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MAYA AND MEXICAN MANUSCRIPTS. 



thus: Commencing at the bottom at the right baud, upward to the top, 

 and then along the line toward the left. 



On Plate 58 of the Borgian Codex we find six lines of days with five in 

 each line. Five out of these six lines are composed of the five days just 

 named, simply varied as to the respective positions they occupy in the 

 line, but maintaining the same order. 



On Plate 17, same Codex, we see two lines corresponding with the first 

 and second columns of the arrangement of the days heretofore given. 



But without further reference to these smaller or isolated groups, we 

 have conclusive proof of this method of arranging the days among the 

 Mexicans, in three extended series — one found on Plates 49-56 of the 

 Vatican Codex B ; one on Plates 31-38 of the Borgian Codex, and an- 

 other on Plates 1-8 of the Bologna Codex. 



I give here the arrangement found in the first, which is precisely the 

 same as that of the Borgian Codex, except that this is to be read from 

 the left to the right, and that of the Borgian Codex from the right to 

 the left, both commencing with the bottom line (numbered 5 in the 

 following list): 



A photo-engraved copy of one plate of the former is also given in 

 Fig. 5, as it furnishes proof that the days and the order in which they 

 follow each other are the same as I have given them. 



For the benefit of English readers the list is given in the English 

 equivalents of the Mexican names n 



11 In order to accommodate the list to the paging it is divided into sections, the sec- 

 ond section to follow to the right of the tirst; the third to the right of the second, 

 and so on to the last, as thongh extended continuously to the right. Those numbered 

 1 would then form one continuous transverse line, as would also those numbered 2,3, 

 4 and 5 respectively. 



l - In the original, Deer, certainly an error. 



