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18 But there is still stronger evidence on this point, which I will now introduce.

For this purpose I will have to ask the reader to observe carefully our colored Plates I, II, III, and IV, which are exact copies of XX—XXIII of the Manuscript. He will notice that the extreme left-hand column of Plate IV (Man. XXIII) contains only the character for Cauac, which is repeated thirteen times, and that over each is a red numeral. Near the top are certain other characters with which we have nothing to do at present.

Commencing with the upper Cauac and moving down the column we find the numbers over them, so far as they can be made out, as follows: 10, 1, 5, 9, 13, 4, 8, 12, (?), 7, (?), 2, 6. If these numbers relate here to the days of the week, why this peculiar order? If we refer to Table II of the days of the months and year, and run our eyes along the transverse line opposite Cauac, we shall find the order to be as follows: 1, 8, 2, 9, 3, 10, 4, 11, 6, 12, 6, 13, 7, wholly different from.what we see here. If we construct a table of years similar to those already given (III and IV), but extended over two complete-cycles of 52 years each, we shall be able to explain this mystery. We give here, for the reasons