5. The general History of Phœnicia, but especially the political and commercial History of the Kingdom of Tyrus:--its Rise and Fall analyzed. 6. The _cause_ of the Tyrian migration to the Western Hemisphere--the means whereby, and the date wherein it was accomplished,--the means of concealing the secret of their Discovery of the Western Continent from the Asiatics and Europeans. 7. The building of their first Altars, Temples, Pyramids, and Palaces, and which have remained as unknown in the History of the World, for full two thousand one hundred and fifty years! 8. The new Discovery of the Fulfilment of _five additional Prophecies, by_ ISAIAH, identified and established by the proofs of the Tyrian Epoch of this History of Ancient America. 9. A Recapitulation of the entire subject, and summary of the various evidences of the truth of the Tyrian Theory, founded upon Analogies, Traditions, History, and Prophecy! And LASTLY. The fulfilment of the Tyrian Prophecies of ISAIAH in the Western Hemisphere, also establishes (with the division of the Aborigines into two races, Tyrian and Israelitish, and their conquerors) the actual accomplishment of Noah's Malediction, and his Prophecy of the Human Family! These astounding and new-discovered facts will form a concluding chapter for the complete annihilation of atheistical denial of Prophetic truths. These prophetic facts are not essential to the support of this History,--they are but the seals to the document. CHAPTER IV. THE FINE ARTS, AS AUTHORITIES FOR HISTORICAL RECORDS, INVESTIGATED AND ESTABLISHED. SECTION I. ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE. If it were possible to place within an Ephesian Temple, every historic book, manuscript, and engraving in the world, and then the sacrilegious torch of a modern Erostratus should entirely consume them, whereby the only apparent knowledge to be obtained would be from tradition,--yet the marble and stone quarries of the earth have issued those volumes composed and fashioned by the hands of man, that would restore the progressive history of the arts and civilization. Architecture has erected his lofty temples, palaces, and mansions; and Sculpture has, with her magic wand, charmed and adorned them with historic facts, legends, and romance: the former planned the porticoes, columns, and proportions; but the latter was the power whereby they were fashioned and embellished. Architecture by his peculiar characteristic gives intelligence as we wander amid his works, that we are on the land of Egypt, or the plains of Pæstum: on the Acropolis of Athens, or the land of Romulus and the Coliseum: and whether we gaze upon the sky-pointing Pyramid, the stern or the graceful Doric, the Ionic of the Ilissus, or the acanthus-crowned Corinthian,--they one and all have voices of oracular power, proclaiming to the classic scholar the Nation from whence they arose to life and beauty.