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" These pictures are followed by representa- 

 tions of several trades, which obtain regulations ; 

 and of several crimes, with their punishments. 

 The whole is terminated by the mati and woman 

 at the age of threescore years and ten, enjoying 

 on the brink of the tomb, in the midst of their 

 posterity, the royal Persian privilege of intoxica- 

 tion, and of escaping from the law to forget their 

 sufferings*. The circle which denotes the year 

 is repeated in this place, but divided by a double 

 Greek cross, and surmounted by the numerical 

 sign of twenty, to mark each score. Among 

 the characters in this part of the work we must 

 cite that of the nocturnal sky, observed by an 

 astronomical pnest-f-. This section of the circle, 

 covered with small rounds with eyes, reminds us 

 of the Egyptian hieroglyphic of the sky, and its 

 images covered with eyes J/' 



We shall insert in this place the notes, which 

 are added to the collection of Mendoza, from the 

 Mexican text, in the two editions of Purchas § 

 and Thevenot (|. 



* PI. 59, fig. 7. t Plate 58, fig. 1. 



J Palin on the Study of Hieroglyphics, vol. 1, p. 88—97. 

 The text of the original being disfigured by typographical 

 errors, slight changes have been made, without which several 

 phrases would have been unintelligible. 



§ Pilgrim, in Jive hooks, vol. in, p. 1068, 1071, 1085, 1087, 

 1089, 1091, and 1097. 



|| Relation de divers Voyages curieux, par Melchisedec 

 Thevenot, t. 2, p. 47. 



