[609] Rosny, Essai sur le Déchiffrement de L’Écriture Hiératique de L’Amérique Centrale, Paris, 1876, folio, with large colored plates and fac-similes. In three parts, two of which only have as yet appeared (Oct. 1878). The author informs me (Feb. 1879) that a fourth part will be required to complete the work.
[610] Bollaert in Memoirs of Anthropol. Soc. of London, vol. iii, p. 298.
[611] Ibid., p. 301.
[612] Ibid., p. 307.
[613] See a review of these attempts in Rosny’s Essai, pp. 12–13, and remarks on Charencey in Appendix D of Baldwin’s Ancient America.
[614] Examination of Cent. Am. Hier., p. 306.
[615] The Ancient Phonetic Alphabet of Yucatan, p. 6, N. Y., 1870, cited by Rosny, Essai, p. 25.
[616] Essai, p. 26; Rosny cites Bancroft’s opinion to the same effect, Native Races, vol. ii, p. 782.
[617] Native Races, vol. ii, pp. 529–33.
[618] Native Races, vol. ii, p. 537.