Water running ofF, it is drying, in the plains and the

(1) The name of lliis snake-rusliing water is wcry inleresling : lie must be idenlical wi:hlhe m'^\.\i oï TescaUtTpoca, under Ihe nanieof YaoU, whohvon^hl waier and optned tîie Caribbœaii sea. Aman, quite a mcxican name, means, Ihe Extcnding ihe Water, and Yam remindslhe Am, thcDevourer of ihe abyss.

(2) Hère again wehave anoiher very intercsiingname, Tula.

(3) Nana-Bushremmàs of Nanahuatl, who was the volcano of the greal hare, Tochtli, one of the names of the Crescent.

(4) Mukol, another name of inlerest. Compare with Môk^ ofwhichi spoke, relaiing toihe grand-mother Xmukané.

(5) The turtling people may be the islands coming ont from the occan, according to the sensé of the following verses.

mountains, al Ihopalli of thc cave, elsewlicre wcnl Ihe powerful action or niolion.