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��AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST

��[n. s., i, 1899

��tables, published as an appendix to the work, which has appeared as Part 9. These values are as follows :

��Great Cycle

Cycle

Katun

Ahau

Chuen

Day

Named Day

Named Month....

��Temple of the Foliated t toss

��54 1

18

5

4 20 or o

I Ahau

13 Mac

��Temple of the Sun

��54 1

18

5

3 6

13 Cimi

19 Ceh

��Temple of the Cross

��53 12

19 13

4 20 or o

8 Ahau

13 Mac

��Inscribed SUps

��Tempi? of the Inscriptions

��55

3 18

12

15 12

8 Eb

18 Tzec

��54

9

4

20 or o

18 or o

20 or o

13 Ahau

18 Yax

��This will suffice to show the great advance made in our knowledge of the contents of the graven hieroglyphic inscriptions since the appear- ance of the first number of Maudslay's monumental publication. It js exceedingly doubtful if we shall ever know much more about Palenque than what is now published. The present writer spent a number of weeks in Palenque in the winter of 1897-98 with the object of carrying on extensive excavations, but was deterred by the dense vegetation and the almost incessant rains which prevail during nearly ten months of the year. Laborers are scarce, and it is now almost impossible to procure them on account of the coffee plantations in the Tumbala region where all the laboring Indians near Palenque are employed. It is gratifying to know that the Mexican government has decided to remove all of the important tablets to the Museo Nacional in the City of Mexico. It is to be hoped that the parts of Mr Mauds- lay's work relating to Quirigua, Menche or Yachilan, Tikal, and other Maya ruins will be published as speedily as possible.

��M. H. Saville.

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