[8] While these pages devoted to the Analogies are passing through the Press, Mr. Stephens has published his _second_ visit to Yucatan. Upon an investigation of the engravings of the Volumes, we find nothing to change any portion of this History; but, on the contrary, as we predicted in this Volume (see note to page 120), the additional Ruins and Cities discovered, actually support our conclusions, and confirm, consequently, this Tyrian æra. This is especially visible in the Ruins of Labnah, which are directly in analogy with those of Uxmal. We feel some pleasure that our artistical prediction has been literally fulfilled,--otherwise it might have injured a portion of the present Work--yet so slight, as not to have interfered with the principle of this History. The time of their erection (_i. e._ the Temples in Yucatan) therefore, still remains unchanged in the order in which we ventured to place them; viz., that they were built _after_ the Temples of Copan, Ocosingo, Palenque, &c. Up to this time (May 1843), there have been discovered in Central America _twenty-six_ Ancient Cities, Ruins, and Temples:--yet with these additional witnesses against him, the persevering Traveller still clings to the belief, that all the Aborigines of the entire Continent were _one_ People,--and that they sprung up like the plants,--"indigenous" to that land,--and no other! We have proved the fallacy of these propositions in our first pages, and in the Chapter devoted to his artistical Refutations. Having stopped the Press to insert these remarks upon Mr. Stephens's _second_ visit to Yucatan, we cannot refrain from offering a few observations upon a paragraph by one of the most learned and accomplished Reviewers of the present day,[9]--and one who has the distinguished honour of having first brought the Ruins of Ancient America to the general notice of Europe, through the medium of his talented periodical. In reviewing[10] Mr. Stephens's volumes upon "Incidents of Travel in Yucatan," (2d Visit,)--the Editor writes as follows:--