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These pictures are followed by representa- 
tions of several trades, which obtain regulations ; 
and of several crimes, with their punishments. 
The whole is terminated by the man and woman 
at the age of threescore years and ten, enjoying 
on the brink of the tomb, in the midst of their 
posterity, the royal Persian privilege of intoxica- 
tion, and of escaping from the law to forget their 
sufferings*. The circle which denotes the year 
is repeated in this place, but divided by a double 
Greek cross, and surmounted by the numerical 
sign of twenty, to mark each score. Among 
the characters in this part of the work we must 
cite that of the nocturnal sky, observed by an 
astronomical priest'J". This section of the circle, 
covered with small rounds with eyes, reminds us 
of the Egyptian hieroglyphic of the sky, and its 
images covered with eyes 
We shall insert in this place the notes, which 
are added to the collection of Mendoza, from the 
Mexican text, in the two editions of Purchas § 
and Thevenot ||. 
* PI. 59, fig. 7. + Plate 58, fig. 1. ' " 
J Palin on the Study of Hieroglyphics, vol. 1, p. 88—97. 
The text of the original being disfigured by typographical 
errors, slight changes have been made, without which several 
phrases would have been unintelligible. 
§ Pilgrim, in Jive books, vol. ill, p. 1068, 1071, 1085, 1087, 
1089, 1091, and 1097. 
|[ Relation de divers Voyages curieux, par Melchisedec 
Thevenot,^ t. 2, p. 47. 
