"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the _Lord_, though your sins be as SCARLET, they shall be _as white as snow_: though they be RED LIKE CRIMSON, they shall be _as wool_." (_i. e._ white as snow.) [Isaiah i. 18.] The latter part of the verse is but a repetition of the former,--a favourite style in Holy-Writ, to enforce the precepts upon the mind of the reader or hearer. Now the more ancient of the Ruins in Mexican America, are stained or painted _Red_:--the Traveller, however, does not express the degree of Red,--light or dark,--or whether it contained any other colour with it;--it is enough that Red is distinctly stated:--and may not the Aborigines have dyed their sculpture in remembrance of their past celebrity at Tyrus? If at Copan (their first city) they had mixed _Blue_ with _Red_ to produce the _blood-purple_, the lapse of centuries would have extracted the minor colour--blue,--(minor from its proportion in mixture),--and have left the major colour,--Red,--entire,--as it now appears upon the Idols, Altars, and steps of these Egypto-Tyrian monuments in Ancient America. Again; the knowledge of colours by the Tyrians, (and those in which they excelled)--is distinctly stated in the Bible. SOLOMON in sending to HIRAM, King of Tyrus (1015 B. C.) for Artists to build and adorn the Temple of Jerusalem,--says-- "Send me now, therefore, a man cunning _to work_ in gold and in silver, and in brass and in iron,--and in _purple_, and _crimson_, and _blue_, &c." [2 Chronicles ii. 7.] "Blue" is directly expressed, and by its mixture with "Crimson" (_i. e._ Red.--_Vide_ Isaiah i. 18.) in certain proportions would produce "Purple."--Now in Mexican America we have seen, that Blue and Red (and perhaps originally a Purple), are found, and used by the Aborigines to adorn their first Temple at Copan, as Solomon did his Temple at Jerusalem,--_through the skill and knowledge of the_ TYRIANS!--who without doubt practised their art in colours upon their own Temples at Tyrus,--and which Solomon, in compliment to Hiram (with whom he was in the strictest bonds of amity), was willing to, and did, imitate, in the Capital of Israel. Had the Tyrians possessed _no knowledge_ of Colours, the discovery of them upon the Mexican Ruins would have been useless in reference to any analogy, and injurious against identity;--but, the Tyrians having the knowledge of the three primitives, and of a fourth colour, and had they not been discovered at Copan or Palenque, then the _want_ of a similitude would be evident and material;--but, as both People,--the Tyrians and the Aborigines,--possessed the same knowledge, and practice of colouring their Temples,--the Analogy is not only apparent, but absolute.