[62-*] The suggestion above is linguistic, and in that phase is given as a corollary to the foregoing discussion; but, as stated, it is at the same time in accord with the “Aryan” theory in its essentials (though not in its hypothetical and ultra-historical speculations), and it also finds confirmation by various passages in _The Secret Doctrine_, by H. P. Blavatsky, as already quoted. “The traces of an immense civilization, even in Central Asia, are still to be found. This civilization is undeniably _prehistoric_.... The Eastern and Central portions of those regions--the Nan-Shan and the Altyn-Tagh--were once upon a time covered with cities that could well vie with Babylon. A whole geological period has swept over the land, since those cities breathed their last, as the mounds of shifting sand, and the sterile and now dead soil of the immense central plains of the basin of Tarim testify.... In the oasis of Cherchen some 300 human beings represent the relics of about a hundred extinct nations and races--the very names of which are now unknown to our ethnologists.” (Vol. I, page xxxii et seq.) See also Col. Prjevalsky’s _Travels_. Why should it not be so? The above was written in 1888, but the evidences are growing every day, and it will be against all archaeological precedent if far-reaching results do not follow from Dr. Stein’s _small_ find, and from Capt. d’Ollone’s recent researches among the Lolos, and the securing by him, as we are informed, of the long-sought knowledge of their hieroglyphic system. [63-*] The study of Tibetan has so far been approached almost exclusively from the south, that is by those already familiar with Sanskrit and Pâli. To this fact, as well as to the overwhelming influence exercised on literary Tibetan by the Buddhist propaganda, is due the difficulty one meets in any study of its origins. The traces, however, do nevertheless exist. Some interesting facts concerning both Chinese and Tibetan, which seem to be entirely omitted in such later standard works as those of Summers, Wade, and Giles, are to be found in the almost forgotten _Chinese Grammar_ of Dr. Marshman, Serampore, 1814. Transcriber’s Note Page Error TN-1 20 two glyphs [Hieroglyph] and [Hieroglyph] should have a . at the end TN-2 25 above the the should read above the TN-3 34 Muluc Ix, Cauac should read Muluc, Ix, Cauac TN-4 38 Cimi forms: [Hieroglyphs] should have a . at the end TN-5 51 relationtionship should read relationship End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex, by William E. Gates