Note 9 — I. Introductory.

The Abbé Brasseur’s whimsical speculations are in his introduction to the Codex Troano, published by the French government in 1869. The chief work of de Rosny on the subject is his Essai sur le Déchiffrement de l’Ecriture Hiératique de l’Amérique Centrale, folio, Paris, 1876. He fully recognizes, however, that there are also ideographic and pictorial characters as well as phonetic.