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Although the figns or chara6lers5 which are fignified by 

 thefe names, fliould be diflributed among the twenty 

 days, according to the order above, neverthelcfs in 

 their mode of reckoning, no regard was paid to the di- 

 vifion of months, nor that of years, but to periods of 

 thirteen days (fimilar to thofe of thirteen years in the 

 century), which ran on without interruption from the 

 end of a month or year. The firfl day of the century 

 was I. Cipadli 'y the fecond, 2. Ehecatl^ or wind ; the 

 third, 3. Calli^ or houfe ; and fo on to thirteen, which 

 was 13. Acatlj or reed. The 14th day began ano- 

 ther period, reckoning i. Ocelotl ftyger), 2. ^auh- 

 til (eaglej, &c. until the completion of the month 

 7. Xochitl (flower), and in the next month they conti- 

 nued to count 8. Cipa6lli^ 9. Ehecatl^ &c. Twenty of 

 thefe periods made in thirteen months a cycle of two 

 hundred and lixty days, and during the whole of this 

 time, the fame fign or chara^ler was not repeated with 

 the fame number, as will appear from the calendar 

 which we fliall give hereafter. On the firfl: day of the 

 fourteenth month, another cycle commenced in the 

 fame order of the chara6lers, and of the fame number 

 of periods, as the firfl. If the year had not, befides the 

 eighteen months, had the five days called Netnonte7niy 

 or if the periods had not been continued in thefe days, 

 the firfl day of the fecond year of the century would 

 have been the fame with that of the preceding, i. Ci- 

 pa6lli ; and in like manner, the laft day of every year 

 would always have been Xochitl ; but as the period of 

 thirteen days was continued through the days called 

 Nemontemi, on that account the figns or characters 

 changed place, and the fign Miquiztli^ which occupied 

 in all the months of the firfl year the fixth place, occu- 

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