The answer of Your Grace to my letter upon the subject,--my sense of obedience to the suggestion of His Royal Highness (who has honoured me as his visitor and guest)--and my own feelings of profound veneration for Your Grace;--together with the importance of historically establishing the fulfilment of additional prophecies by ISAIAH,--the Introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere by one of The Twelve Apostles--_in person_;--the Founding of Ancient America more than three centuries previous to that Sacred event,--with the Identity of the Aborigines, and thus unfolding additional Truths of The Bible,--being of that Character to call forth attention from every part of the Globe, where Civilization is known, or the Divine Blessings of Religion are received and appreciated;--these considerations all assure me that in Dedicating to Your Grace the Original History of Ancient America, I but follow the dictates of an imperative duty;--and shall cherish the hope that my literary labours upon this novel subject, will receive the fostering protection of one, whose Life, Learning, and Piety, are alike conspicuous,--and who, by their triple power,--has been enabled to dare fearless comparisons with the past,--to continue blessings to the present,--and to create examples of faith and charity, that may be imitated, but cannot be excelled, by those of a future age. With the fervent prayer that The Almighty Father may long preserve the life and faculties of Your Grace, that they may continue to cast their benevolent and protecting influence around the Divine Institution of Christianity;--I thus express my devotional duty,-- And remain, YOUR GRACE, In Religious Filiality Most faithfully, GEORGE JONES. _London, June, 1843._ "FOR INQUIRE I PRAY THEE OF THE FORMER AGE, AND PREPARE THYSELF TO THE SEARCH OF THEIR FATHERS,--SHALL THEY NOT TEACH THEE, AND TELL THEE, AND UTTER WORDS OUT OF THEIR HEART?" HOLY-WRIT. VOLUME THE FIRST, OR THE TYRIAN ÆRA, IN TWO BOOKS. BOOK I. THE RUINS OF ANTIQUITY IN ANCIENT AMERICA, DESCRIBED AND ANALYZED; AND THE ORIGINAL ARCHITECTS IDENTIFIED, _&c._ [Illustration: man sitting on rock] BOOK II. THE SCRIPTURAL, POLITICAL, & COMMERCIAL HISTORY OF TYRUS, TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THAT KINGDOM BY =ALEXANDER OF MACEDON=; AND THE TYRIAN MIGRATION TO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, IN =THE YEAR 332 BEFORE CHRIST=, _&c._ INSCRIPTION OF THE FIRST VOLUME. TO HIS MAJESTY F r e d e r i c k W i l l i a m t h e F o u r t h, K i n g o f P r u s s i a. &c. &c. &c. &c. YOUR MAJESTY, With feelings of enthusiasm, founded on the contemplation of a peaceful and a patriotic King, do I inscribe to Your Majesty, the first Volume of an effort to delineate the History of Ancient America.