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Philology Literature and Archæology

Vol. III No. 2

A PRIMER OF
MAYAN HIEROGLYPHICS

BY

DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Sc.D.

PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN ARCHÆOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, ETC., ETC.

“Hieroglyphics old,

Which sages and keen-eyed astrologers,

Then living on the earth, with labouring thought,

Won from the gaze of many centuries.”

—Keats

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