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APPENDIX. 



composing the years formed by the four initial days, together with the intef- 



calary or complementary days. 







Year beginning 



Year beginning 









with the day 31uluc<, 



Year of Gix. 



Year of Cauac. 



Kan. 



Muluc. 



Gix. 



Cauac. 



nhi^prian 



Oc. 



Men. 



Ajau. 



Gluimf. 



Chuen. 



Gluib. 



Ymix. 



lVTanilr 



Eb. 



Caban. 



Yk. 



juuuxais 



Ben. 



Edznab. 



Akbal. 



1VJ.U1UV. 



Gix. 



Cauac. 



Kan. 



Oc. 



Men. 



Ajau. 



Chicchan. 





Gluib. 



Ymix. 



Gluimi. 



Eb. 



Caban. 



Yk. 



Manik. 



Ben. 



Rd7nab 



Akbal. 



Lamat. 



Gix. 



Gauac. 



Kan. 



Muluc. 



Men. 



Ajau. 



Chicchan. 



Oc. 



Gluib. 



Ymix. 



Gluimi. 



Chuen. 





Yk. 



Manik. 



Eb. 



XLjU-ZiIICllJe 



Akbal. 



Lamat. 



Ben. 



Cauac. 



Kan. 



Muluc. 



Gix. 



Ajau. 



Chicchan. 



Oc. 



Men. 



Ymix. 



Gluimi. 



Chuen. 



Gluib. 



Yk. 



Manik. 



Eb. 



Caban. 



AkbaL 



Lamat. 



Ben. 



Edznab. 



Intercalary day, 



s. Intercalary days. 



Intercalary da 



ys. Intercalary days* 



Kan. 



Muluc. 



Gix. 



Cauac. 



Chicchan. 



Oc. 



Men. 



Ajau. 



ClUimi. 



Chuen. 



Gluib. 



Ymix. 



Manik. 



Eb. 



Caban. 



Yk. ,• 



Lamat. 



Ben. 



Edznab. 



Akbal. 



5°. The Bissextile. 



The connexion between the days or numbers of the week which desig- 

 nate the beginning of the year, and the four initial or first days of the se- 

 ries of five, is so intimate that it is very difficult to intercalate an addi- 

 tional day for the bissextile, without disturbing that correlative order of the 

 initials which is constantly followed in the denomination of the years, and 

 forms their indictions, or weeks. But as the bissextile is necessary to com- 

 plete the solar course, and as I have not any certain knowledge of the 

 manner in which the Indians effected that addition, I will exhibit the meth- 

 od adopted by the Mexicans, their computation being very analogous to 

 that of Yucatan, which in its origin probably emanated from Mexico. 



Veyta asserts, in ch. x. of his " Historia Antigua de Mexico," that the 

 bissextile was made by adding at the end either of the 18 months or of the 

 five supplementary days, a day which was marked with the same hiero- 



