. In 1876 the French Americanist, Leon de Rosny, published an alphabet of twenty-nine letters with numerous variants. But neither this, nor the attempt of another French savant, De Charencey, can be taken seriously. Ten years later Dr. Augustus Le Plongeon published An Ancient Mayan Hieratic Alphabet accord- entire field of past endeavour and has rendered further progress practicable. Judging from the complete state of development at which the system had arrived at the date of the discovery of Central .Vmerica by the Spaniards, there is every reason to refer its origin to a past of consider-

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