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ment, made known by Bianchini in the begin- 
ning of the last century, proves, that there ex- 
isted in the East solar zodiacs, in which are 
found the Tartarian asterisms of the Horse, the 
Dog, the Hare, the Dragon, and the Bird, ar- 
ranged so that the Dog answers to the Bull, and 
not to the Ram of the Greek zodiac, while the 
Dog and the Hare are separated not by four, but 
only by two signs. Now if in Asia the same 
nacshatras, and the same dodecatemorions, have 
not always followed the same order in the dif- 
ferent lunar and solar zodiacs, we must not be 
surprised at the transposition of the signs ob- 
served in the cycle of the hieroglyphics of the 
day among the Mexicans. It is even passible, 
that this transposition may be merely apparent, 
and may appear real to us, because we can com- 
pare the Tolteck and Mexican calendars only to 
the cycles which we find at present among the 
Tartars and the Thibetans. Perhaps other na- 
tions of eastern Asia have communicated their 
zodiac to those warlike hordes, which have in- 
undated Mexico since the seventeenth century. 
Perhaps in traversing the elevated plain of cen- 
tral Asia, and examining more attentively the 
remains of civilization preserved in little Buck- 
haria, at ' Turfan, or near the ruins of Kara- 
corum, the ancient capital of the empire of the 
Monguls, travellers may some day discover the 
