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of Elizabeth, survived five husbands, among whom are 

 numbered the last two kings of Mexico, Cuitlahuitzin, 

 and Quauhtemotzin, and three Spanish officers. 



Page 83. Cihuacohuatl. Mr. Maier thinks, that 

 this figure of the mother of mankind, as well as that 

 delineated in the 13th plate, refer to the history of Ata- 

 Entsik and his two little children, Juskeka and Tahuit- 

 zaron, celebrated among the Hurons and the Iroquois. 

 Mytholog. Taschenb., torn. 2, p. 241, and torn. 2, p. 

 294. (Creuxius, Hist. Canad. Sea Novae Franciae, 1664, 

 lib. 1> p. 79.) 



Page 85. Shape of the forehead. The head of Teo- 

 cipactli, plate 37, No. 6, has a singular resemblance to 

 that represented in the 11th plate. According to the 

 accounts received from Mexico, since the publication 

 of the first plate of this work, this remarkable sculpture 

 was not found at Oaxaca, as I mistakenly asserted (vol. 

 xiii, p. 126 — 134), but farther to the south, near Guate- 

 mala, the ancient Quauhtemallan. This circumstance 

 tends still farther to remove the doubts, that might be 

 entertained respecting the origin of so strange a monu- 

 ment. Besides, the ancient inhabitants of Guatimala 

 were a highly cultivated people, as is proved by the 

 t ruins of a great city, situate in a place which the Spa- 

 niards call el Palenque. 



Page 125. The hieroglyphics of numbers. Mr. 

 Gatterer, in the abstract of his Universal History, at- 

 tributes to the Phoenicians and Egyptians the admirable 

 invention of expressing tens by the position of the ci- 

 phers. He positively asserts, that, in the Egyptian 

 manuscripts written in cursive characters, nine letters 

 of the alphabet are recognised indicating nine units ; 

 and a tenth sign, performing the office of the nought of 



