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A STUDY OF THE MANUSOKIPT TROANO. 



But there is still stronger evidence on this point, which I will now 

 introduce. 



For this purpose I will have to ask the reader to observe carefully 



Table VI. 



Table VII. 



shall be able to explain this mystery. 



our colored Plates I, II, III, and 

 IV, which are exact copies of XX- 

 XXIII of the Manuscript. He will 

 notice that the extreme left-hand 

 column of Plate IV (Man. XXIII) 

 contains only the character for 

 Cauac, which is repeated thirteen 

 times, and that over each is a red 

 numeral. Near the top are certain 

 other characters with which we 

 have nothing to do at present. 



Commencing with the upper 

 Cauac and moving down the col- 

 umn we find the numbers over 

 them, so far as they can be made 

 out, as follows: 10, 1, 5, 9, 13, 4, 8, 

 12, (?), 7, (?), 2, 6. If these num- 

 bers relate here to the days of 

 the week, why this peculiar order? 

 If we refer to Table II of the days 

 of the months and year, and run 

 our eyes along the transverse line 

 opposite Cauac, we shall find the 

 order to be as follows: 1, 8, 2, 9, 

 3, 10, 4, 11, F,, 12, fi, 13, 7, wholly 

 difi'erent from what we see here. If 



•we construct a table of years simi- 

 lar to those already given (III and 

 IV), but extended over two com- 

 plete cycles of 52 years each, we 



We give here, for the reasons here- 



