late 42, is the seventeenth day of the first month of the
year 1 Kan; 4 Chicchan, first of the line on plate 43, the seventeenth
day of the first month of the year 1 Muluc; 4 Oc, the seventeenth day of
1 Ix, and 4 Men the seventeenth day of 1 Cauac. The four figures in the
middle division of Plates 1 and 2 seem also to favor this idea, not so
much by the peculiar animals represented (of which we have no explanation
to give) as by the double symbols from which they are suspended, which I
am quite confident denote the union of years or the time at which two
years meet--the close of one and the commencement of another--although
fully aware that Dr. Foerstemann has interpreted them as symbols of the
heavenly bodies.[280-1]

In the text above these figures are seen two characters or symbols of
this type, which in all probability, as will hereafter appear, denote or
symbolize the "tying of the years." We may also add that the five days of
each plate or group are the five assigned, as I have explained in "Notes
on certain Maya and Mexican manuscripts," to the cardinal points. For
example, those on Plate 42 are Ahau, Eb, Kan, Cib, Lamat.[280-2] Still it
must be admitted, on the other hand, that as the four lines form
precisely one complete cycle of 13 months or 260 days there is a very
strong inference that they together form one continuous series and that
the arrangement into four parts or divisions has reference to the four
seasons or four cardinal points. The final decision on this point
therefore still remains in doubt.

As it has been shown that Plates 33 to 39 and Plates 38 to 43 are
properly placed as they stand in Kingsborough's copy and also in
Foerstemann's and that Plates 1 and 2 follow Plate 43, we have proof that
the following plates succeed one another to the right, as here given: 33,
34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 1, 2.

A slight inspection is sufficient to show that Plates 29 to 33 follow one
another in the same order, a conclusion which is easily verified by
testing the lines of numerals in the manner explained. It is apparent,
therefore, that the following plates form one unbroken series, running
from left to right: 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41,
42, 43, 1, 2; a conclusion which Dr. Foerstemann, who has had the
opportunity of studying the original, has now reached.

Having ascertained the object and use of at least one class of black
numerals and the relation they bear to the d