104 
CALENDAR 
OF THE 
MUrSCA INDIANS, 
THE ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF THE PLAIN OF BOGOTA. 
I 
PLATE XLIV. 
A STONE, covered with hieroglyphic signs of 
the lunar calendar, and representing the order in 
which the intercalations, that bring back the 
origin of the year to the same season, is made, is 
a monument so much the more remarkable, as it 
is the work of a people, v/hose name is almost 
entirely unknown in Europe, and who have been 
hitherto confounded with the wandering tribes 
of the savages of South America. For the dis- 
covery of this monument we are indebted to Don 
Jose Domingo Duquesne of Madrid, canon of 
the metropolitan church of Santa de Bogota. 
This ecclesiastic, a native of the kingdom of New 
Grenada, and descended from a French family 
settled in Spain, was long the vicar of an Indian 
