Researches, concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America : with descriptions and views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! . sign, &c.; and that this substitutionhas insensibly given rise to the extraordinaryidea, that the numbers themselves were significa-tive. This subject, which is not uninteresting inthe history of the migrations of nations, can becleared up only when we shall have compared agreater number of American monuments witheach other. 144 FRAGMENT OF A HIEROGLYPHICAL MANUSCRIPT PRESERVED IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY AT DRESDEN. PLATE XL
Researches, concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America : with descriptions and views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! . sign, &c.; and that this substitutionhas insensibly given rise to the extraordinaryidea, that the numbers themselves were significa-tive. This subject, which is not uninteresting inthe history of the migrations of nations, can becleared up only when we shall have compared agreater number of American monuments witheach other. 144 FRAGMENT OF A HIEROGLYPHICAL MANUSCRIPT PRESERVED IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY AT DRESDEN. PLATE XLV. According to the principle that monuments ex-plain eacli other ; and that, to study profoundlythe history of a nation, we should have underour eyes the whole of the works, to which it hasaffixed its character ; I have determined to en-grave on plates 45, 46, 47, and 48, fragmentstaken from the Mexican manuscripts of Dresdenand Vienna. The first of these manuscripts wasaltogether unknown to me, when the printing ofthese sheets was begun. It is not easy to givea complete notice of the hieroglyphical paint-ings, that have escaped the destruction, with (;•/ in. m ••••
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