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

(1) The name of lliis snake-rusliing water is wery inleresling : he mnst be ideniical wi'.hlhe myth ofTescar/ipoca, under Ihe nameof rao«<,\vho brought water and opened ihe Caribbœan sea. Aman, qiiite a niexican naine, meaas, the Extending the Water, and Yam remindsthe Am, iheDevourer of ihe abysa.

(2) Hore again wehave anolher very interesting name, Tula.

(3) Nana-Bush reminds of Nanahuatl, who \Nas ihe volcano of the great hare, Tochtli, one of the names of ihe Crescent.

(4) ilokol, another name of inlcrest. Compare wiih Môk, of whichi spoke, relating tolhe grand-mother Xmukané.

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

mounlains, al llic patli of (bc cave, elsewhere wenl Ihe |»o\vcrful action orinolion.