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Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America (1889)

Maudslay, Alfred Percival, 1850-1931, Goodman, J. T, Godman, Frederick Du Cane, 1834-1919, Salvin, Osbert, 1835-1898, Greve, W., lithographer, Griggs, William, 1832-1911, Hunter, Ada, Purkiss, W., lithographer, Shawe, W, Sweet, H. N. (Henry N.) · London : Published for the editors by R.H. Porter ... and Dulau & Co. · leaf 129

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o badly damaged to be made out distinctly. What thelast glyph in all three lines means I do not know, but I suspect them to be variantcycle symbols used determinatively. The middle one is common, and seems always torelate in some way to the beginning of a cycle. The next example I shall give… … There are many new characters here, and there is more variety in the substitution ; EXEECISES IN DECIPHEKMENT. 113 but as the reader is by this time familiar with the principal symbols and the method ofscanning the lines, I shall not pause to point out the different variants, but simply givemy idea…

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