All the innovations upon the ancient Tyrian customs in Mexican America are traceable to an Event, about three centuries and four score years after the Tyrians first touched at Florida,--an Event not to be investigated here, as it belongs essentially to the third Epoch, viz., _the introduction of Christianity_:--but, to that fact may be traced the immediate _cause_, of many innovations upon the Idolatrous customs of the Tyrians, in several parts of Ancient America,--it led even to alterations of the ornaments on their Temples, as will be shewn in establishing the Event so full of Religious veneration, and,--as a learned divine justly said, in receiving _our proof_ of the third Epoch,--so fraught with Christian Sublimity. END OF BOOK THE FIRST, OF VOLUME I. EPOCH THE FIRST. B o o k t h e S e c o n d. THE TYRIAN ÆRA; OR, THE FOUNDING OF ANCIENT AMERICA, CONTINUED. AND HISTORICALLY ESTABLISHED, AS BEING IN THE YEAR 332 BEFORE CHRIST. H o r a t i o. O DAY AND NIGHT,--BUT THIS IS WOND'ROUS STRANGE! H a m l e t. AND, THEREFORE, AS A STRANGER, GIVE IT WELCOME. THERE ARE MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH, HORATIO, THAN ARE DREAMT OF IN OUR PHILOSOPHY! S h a k s p e a r e. B o o k t h e S e c o n d. THE SCRIPTURAL, POLITICAL, AND COMMERCIAL HISTORY OF THE PHŒNICIAN NATIONS,--BUT ESPECIALLY OF THE KINGDOM OF TYRUS, AND THE MIGRATION TO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. CHAPTER I. (2349--1600 B. C.) THE NATIONS OF PHŒNICIA. 2349 BEFORE CHRIST.] In reviewing the history of the great Phœnician family, an interest of a strong and peculiar character is now given to it from the new and apparent fact, that the Nations of that family were not annihilated--in its literal sense--by the Babylonian, Macedonian, or the Roman, at the great capitals, Sidon, Tyrus, and Carthage. The Phœnicians as a people, will now possess an interest in the mind of the English and American reader (and of all Europe) of no common character:--for "all time" forward the History of Tyrus (and of Israel) must be regarded as being blended with that of the Western Hemisphere;--and as a consequence, with the Anglo-Saxon race: whose colossal tread, ere a century shall have passed, will obliterate every minor footprint on the Western Continent,--for the Institutions of Alfred and of Washington--freedom-founded--tower, like sheltering Palm-trees, over the desert sands of the previous Nations.