The two brazen Pillars of the Porch of the Temple _were square_,--and _about five feet six inches on each side_,--(what are the Pillars at Copan?)--and the capitals covered with carved "nets of checker work" and "wreaths of chain-work,"--upon these were suspended "two rows of pomegranates." The celebrated "bases" were distinctly square,--and about _seven feet on each side_. "And he (the Tyrian Artist) made ten bases of brass,--_four_ cubits (21 inches and a fraction each cubit, Scripture measure,) was the _length_ of one base, and _four_ cubits the _breadth_ thereof" [this is a perfect square]. "And there were four undersetters _to the four corners of one base_,"--"And also upon the mouth of it (the laver) were _gravings_ with their _borders, four-square, not round_."--"And after this manner he made the ten bases [_i. e._ square columns]: all of them had one casting [Hebrew: "_fashioning_"], one measure and one size." [1 Kings, ch. vii.] Now the square style of Architecture in Solomon's Temple may distinctly be claimed as _Tyrian_ Architecture--for the Tyrians were the Architects, Sculptors, and Builders, directed by Hiram the Artist,--and it is self-evident, since they were so, that they followed that style generally adopted in their own country;--here then is a direct proof of the _Tyrian_ Architecture being in Ancient America,--for the reader will instantly recognise that the Square-columns form the "door-posts" also at Palenque,--and that the Idol-Obelisks at Copan are "four-square, not round" and covered with "gravings"--(_i. e._ Sculptures). The superficial measure of the "square piers,"--or columns at Palenque, does not vary in a great degree from the square Porch-columns and bases at Jerusalem,--while the Hebrew "pomegranates" at the latter Capital, were varied,--yet the florid style of Tyrian Sculpture imitated in the "compositions of leaves and flowers" at Uxmal. It is not necessary to prove that the _measurement_ of the Temple on Mount Moriah, and that at Palenque, are identical, in order to establish the analogy now under consideration, because local applications of their respective dimensions would create essential variations. In the previous reign (that of David) King Hiram sent his Tyrian Architects to Jerusalem, and built a Palace for the Monarch of Israel,--and in the reign of Solomon, (who resolved to erect the Temple) the same King of Tyrus was applied to for artists to build the great Mansion of Religion,--Solomon did not command _how it should be built,--or in what order or style of Architecture_;--that he left to the Tyrians, who were practical artists,--THEY _gave_ HIM _the design_, upon his expressing to the Chief Architect the "wants" of the edifice. "Now these are the things wherein Solomon was _instructed_ for the building of the house of GOD," &c. [2 Chron. iii. 3.]