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of Elizabeth, survived five husbands, among whom are 
numbered the last two kings of Mexico, Cuitlahuitzin, 
and Quauhtemotzin, and three Spanish officers. 
Page 83. CihuacohuaiL Mr. Maier thinks, that 
this figure of the mother of mankind, as well as that 
delineated in the 13th plate, refer to the history of Ata-- 
Entsiksind his two little children, Juskeka and Tahuit- 
zaron, celebrated among the Huron s and the Iroquois. 
Mytholog. Taschenb., tom. 2, p. 241, and tom. 2, p. 
294. (Creuxius, Hist. Canad. Sen Novae Franciae, l664, 
lib. 1, p. 79.) 
Page 85. Shape of the forehead. The head of Teo- 
cipaetli, plate 37, No. 6, has a singular resemblance to 
that represented in the 11th plate. According to the 
accounts received from Mexico, since the publication 
of the first plate of this work, this remarkable sculpture 
vras not found at Oaxaca, as I mistakenly asserted (vol. 
xiii, p. 126 — 134), but farther to the south, near Guati- 
mala, the ancient Quauhtemallan, This circumstance 
tends still farther to remove the doubts, that might be 
entertained respecting the origin of so strange a monu- 
ment. Besides, the ancient inhabitants of Guatimala 
were a highly cultivated people, as is proved by the 
ruins of a great city, situate in a place which the Spa- 
niards call el Palenque. 
Page 125. The hieroglyphics of numbers, Mr. 
Gatterer, in the abstract of his Universal History, at- 
tributes to the Phcnnicians and Egyptians the admirable 
invention of expressing tens by the position of the ci- 
phers. He positively asserts, that, in the Egyptian 
manuscripts written in cursive characters, nine letters 
of the alphabet are recognised indicating nine units ; 
and a tenth sign, performing the office ofthe nought of 
