analogies we have just indicated are not acciden- 
tal^ and that it is not uninteresting to the philo- 
sophical history of man, to see the same fictions 
spread from Etruria and Latium to Thibet, and 
tlience to the ridge of the Cordilleras of Mexico. 
Beside the tradition of the four suns, and the 
customs which we have already described*, the 
Cod. V itican. anon.^ No. 3738, contains several 
curious figures. Of these we shall mention, 
fol. 4, the chichiuhalquehuitly tree of milh^ or 
celestial tree^ that distils milk from the extremity 
of its branches, and around which are seated in- 
fants, who have expired a few days after their 
birth ; fol. 5, a jaw tooth, perhaps of a mastodon te, 
weighing three pounds, given in 1564, by P. Rios, 
to the Viceroy Don Lewis de Velasco ; fol. 8, the 
volcano Cotcitepetl, speahingmountain, celebrated 
for the penance of Quetzalcohuatl, and designated 
by a mouth and a tongue, which are the hiero- 
glyphics of speech ; fol. 10, the pyramid of Cho- 
lula; and fol. 57, the seve n chiefs of the seven 
Mexican tribes, clothed with rabbits’ skins, and 
issuing from the seven caverns of Chicomoztoc. 
From sheet 68 to sheet 93, this manuscript con- 
tains copies of hieroglyphical paintings composed 
after the conquest ; we see natives hung upon 
trees, holding the cross in their hand ; soldiers 
* Plate XIV;, vol. xiii, p. 201. 
