It is my purpose to give a more extended discussion of the Maya language in a subsequent chapter. I was so fortunate as to procure from an Indian in the interior of Yucatan the only copy I have ever seen of R. P. L. Beltran’s Grammar of this language, which is mentioned in the text. It is entitled, “Arte de el Idioma Maya, Reducido á Succinctas Reglas y Semi Lexicon Yucateco, por el R. P. F. Pedro Beltran, de Santa Rosa Maria, ex-Custodio, Lector que sue de Philosophia y Theologia, Revisor del Sto. Oficio, é hijo de esta Sta. Recoleccion Franciscana de Merida. Formólo y Dictólo sienda Maestro de Lengua Maya en el Convento Capitular de N. S. P. S. Francisco, de dicha Ciudad. Año de 1742, Yolo Dedica á la Gloriosa Indiana Santa Rosa Maria de Lima, con licencia: en Mexico, por la Venda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal. Año de 1746.” Footnote 4: Chi-Chen signifies, Mouth of a Well. “Itza,” said to be the Maya name for one of the old possessors of these ruins, is sometimes added by the natives. Footnote 5: The names by which I have designated these ruins, are such as were suggested to me by their peculiar construction, and the purposes for which I supposed them to have been designed. Footnote 6: I found the wood of the zuporte-tree had been used exclusively in these buildings for lintels and thwart-beams, but for no other purpose. Upon several of the beams yet remaining, there were elaborate carvings. This wood is well known in this country for its remarkable durability and solidity. Footnote 7: Dublin Penny Journal for 1834 and 1835, pages 349, 350. Footnote 8: Uxmal signifies “Times past.” Footnote 9: The names (though misnomers) of these structures originated with the people of the country. Footnote 10: Breckenridge. Footnote 11: Sparks’ Life of Ledyard. Footnote 12: Priest. Footnote 13: Bradford’s Am. Ant. Footnote 14: Prof. Rafinesque. Footnote 15: De Solis. Footnote 16: Crawford’s Siam. Footnote 17: Montezuma, in reply to Cortez, says, “In regard to the creation of the world, our beliefs are the same.”—_Bernal Diez._ Footnote 18: An evil genius of hideous appearance, that, it was believed, would devour the world. Footnote 19: “They had books made of the bark of trees, in which were noted down the records of past times.”—_Bernal Diez._ Footnote 20: