We have suggested that Grecians [_i. e._ of Ægina] may have been the authors of the Sculpture, and Egyptians of the Architectural bases of the edifices, because their respective styles are traceable in the Ruins of Palenque, Uxmal, and Copan. This suggestion is founded upon the possibility (and even probability) of natives of those nations being at Tyrus, at the time of the departure of the Tyrians:--yet, it does not follow, as a necessity, that all the Architects, Builders, and Sculptors must have been of those nations;--for although there does not exist in Asia or Africa any Phœnician Architecture, whereby a comparison can be made, yet there does exist the undying record that the Tyrians were builders and Sculptors from their own practice, and that fact is founded upon the authority of Scripture: "And Hiram, King of Tyre sent messengers to David,--and cedar trees,--and _carpenters_ and _masons_,--and they built David a house"--_i. e._ Palace. [2 Samuel v. 2.] Here then is a distinct and undeniable record of the Tyrians being, not only carpenters (their Shipbuilding proves that) but _Masons_,--and which in the original Hebrew text is defined to be "_hewers of the stone of the wall_;" and consequently they were _Sculptors_, as well as _Architects_. Their building and adorning of Solomon's Temple (as will be shewn in the History of Tyrus) are additional facts, with the building of the Palace of David, to put at rest any suspicion, or question, whether the Tyrians themselves, unassisted by others, could have built and Sculptured those edifices in America. The _Israelites_ had no practical knowledge of Architecture until ages after the building (by the Tyrians) of Solomon's Temple. 1015 B. C. The above quotation from Sacred History refers to the year 1043 B. C., and consequently centuries before the time contemplated by this Epoch,--viz., B. C. 332. Skilful knowledge, possessed, and existing for ages before, by any nation, and upon any subject, would naturally be improved upon and practised by descendants:--they would also improve upon the Architecture of _any other nation_ with whom they had association and communion,--and as Tyrus, as a People, of all the ancient nations was a practical one, they produced in America an improvement (and a great one) upon the Architecture of the Egyptians. This fact of _improvement_, and _alteration_ of the original order of Egypt, is another proof that the builders were not essentially of that nation; but,--from a country having a practical skill, and minds daring enough to innovate upon any precedent, when _improvement_ would be the result.--That Nation was Tyrus. We do not desire to advance one assertion, not capable of being defended, and consequently will establish that an improvement upon the Architecture of Egypt does exist in the Ruined cities of Ancient America.