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buhr, on the Roman and Etruscan year (Roemische 

 Geschichte, torn, i, p. 91 and 192). 



Page 144. Complete notice of the Paintings. It is 

 remarkable enough, that a Franciscan monk, Torque- 

 mada, should have branded as a barbarian bishop Zu- 

 maraga, too notorious for the destruction of the histo- 

 rical paintings of the Aztecks (Mon. Ind., torn, i, p. 276). 

 One of the writers in the Literary Gazette of Gottin- 

 gen (1811, p. 1553) asserts, that there exist five Mexi- 

 can manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford 

 (Monthly Mag., vol. ii, p. 337). The same writer, in 

 giving an account of my researches on the monuments 

 of the natives of Mexico, compares the figure repre- 

 sented in the 1st and 2d plate to the head engraved in 

 Tassie, Cat. vol. vii, p. 248. 



