3(i MAYA AND MEXICAN MANUSCRIPTS. 



(Rabbit, Vulture, Lizard, Grass, Flower), the same as column 4. But 

 the arrangement of the days in the respective columns, as in the "Table 

 of the Bacabs," varies from that obtained by placing the days of the 

 month in four groups, as heretofore explained. 



Turning again to the plate of the Cortesian Codex, as shown in our 

 Plate 2, I call attention first to the heavy black L-shaped figures. I 

 presume from the number — eighteen — and the fact that they are found 

 in the line of weeks they are symbols of, or denote the months, but am 

 unable to suggest any explanation of their use in this connection. I 

 find nothing to correspond with them in either of the plates of the Mex- 

 ican Codices referred to. 



