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HIEROGLYPHIC PAINTINGS 



FROM THE 



RACCOLTA DI MENDOZA. 



PLATES LVIII & LIX. 



These engravings tend to throw some light on 

 what we have already said of the rites and man- 

 ners of the ancient Mexicans *. We cannot 

 give a clearer account of the interesting manu- 

 script known under the name of the Raccolta di 

 Mendoza, than by introducing here the expla- 

 nation, which M. de Palin has given of it in his 

 work on the study of hieroglyphics. We 

 are far from admitting, without exception, all 

 the parallels drawn by this ingenious writer; 

 but we think it a beautiful and fertile idea, to 

 consider all the nations of the Earth as belong- 

 ing to the same family ; and to recognise, in the 



* See vol. xiii, p. 183. 

 VOL. XIV. N 



