[3.] See Kingsborough, vol. ii, Plate I, of the Laud MS.

[4.] Since this was written I have seen a paper by Dr. Valentini, “The Landa alphabet a Spanish fabrication” (read before the American Antiquarian Society, April 28, 1880), and the conclusions of that paper seem to me to be undoubtedly correct. They are the same as those just given, but while my own were reached by a study of the stones and in the course of a general examination, Dr. Valentini has addressed himself successfully to the solution of a special problem.

[5.] See Brasseur de Bourbourg, Histoire du Mexique, vol. i, p. 328.

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