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persons and sites. I am inclined to think, that 
the picture, which Siguenza communicated to 
Gemelli, is a copy made after the conquest, either 
by a native, or the descendant of a Spaniard and 
a Mexican. The painter has no doubt avoided 
following the incorrect forms of the original ; 
he has imitated with scrupulous exactness the 
hieroglyphics of the names, and the cycles ; but 
he has altered the proportions of the human fi- 
gures, the drapery of which he has formed in a 
manner analogous to that we have found in other 
Mexican paintings 
The following are the principal events indi- 
cated in the S2d plate, according to Siguenza’s 
explanation, to which we shall add a few inci- 
dents taken from the historical annals of the 
Mexicans. 
The history begins by the Deluge of Coxcox, or 
the fourth destruction of the world, which, accord- 
ing to the Azteck cosmogony, terminates the 
fourth of the great cycles, atonatiuh, the age 
ivathr This cataclysm took place, according 
to the two received chronological systems, one 
thousand four hundred and seventeen, or eigh- 
teen thousand and twenty-eight years after the 
beginning of the age of earth, tlaltonatiuh. 
The enormous difference of these numbers ought 
Plate 14, No. 5 and 7. 
t See above, page 23. 
