278 GENERAL INDEX TO 



Balance, Sign of the, added by Julius Csesar to the Roman 

 Zodiac, xiii, 332 ; is found among the Indians and the 

 Egyptians, xiv, 230 ; References to all the Passages of 

 Ancient and Modern Authors relative to it, 241. 



Baptism of an Indian represented on a hieroglyphic Painting, 

 xir,17l. 



Baragan, a Summit of the central Chain of tbe Cordillera of 

 New Grenada, xiii, 62. 



Basaltes of Regla, their Forms, xiii, 273. 



Bas-relief, Roman, representing the Greek Zodiac, and ano- 

 ther Zodiac which resembles that of the Tartar Na- 

 tions, xiii, 382. 



Bas-relief on the Stone of Sacrifice of Huitzilipochtli, xiii, 262. 



Beauharnois, the Chevalier de, sends to France a pretended 

 Inscription found in Canada, xiii, 151. 



Been, Name of a Chiapanese Warrior, which marks a Day of 

 a small Period, xiii, 319. 



Belus, his Temple at Babylon resembled the Mexican Teo- 

 callis, xiii, 98. 



Berlin, Description of the Mexican Manuscripts found there, 

 xiii, 191. 



Betun, a Cement of Asphaltum employed by the Peruvians, 

 xiii, 258. 



Bianchini, an ancient Planisphere described by him, xiii, 

 362. 



Birth of Children, Ceremonies observed at it, xiii, 185 > 

 these represented on Hieroglyphic Paintings, xiv, 

 187. 



Birds escape in the second Destruction of living Creatures, 

 according to the Azteck Mythology, xiv, 22. 



Bochica, a fabulous Personage of the Muysca Indians, and 

 their Legislator, xiii, 74 ; xiv, 107 ; he causes Fama- 

 gata to be multilated, xiv, 136. 



Bogota, River of, its Fall near Tequendama, xiii, 72 ; its 

 breadth above this Fall, 78. 



