"There are no remains in Copan of palaces or private dwellings, and the principal part (of the ruins) is that which stands on the bank of the river, and may perhaps with propriety be called the Temple. The Temple is an oblong enclosure. The front or river wall ('stone and nearly _one hundred feet high_,' vol. i., p. 95) extends on a right line, North and South, _six hundred and twenty-four feet_, and it is from _sixty_ to _ninety feet in height_." The difference in height arising from several parts having fallen. "It (the river-wall) is made of _cut stone_, from three to six feet in length, and a foot and a half in breadth. In many places the stones have been thrown down by bushes growing out of the crevices. The other three sides consist of ranges of steps and _pyramidal_ structures, rising from _thirty, to one hundred and forty feet_ on a slope. The whole line of survey (of this Temple) is _two thousand eight hundred and sixty-six feet_, which though gigantic and extraordinary for a ruined structure of the Aborigines, _that the reader's imagination may not mislead him_, I consider it necessary to say, _is not so large_ as the great (Egyptian) Pyramid of Ghizeh." We certainly do not desire to be misled, or _our_ readers either,--therefore, at once, will be compared the measurements of the pyro-temple of Copan, and the Pyramid of Egypt. Lee Bruyn gives the base side of the great edifice of the Nile at 750 feet. Greaves states it to be 693 feet; the difference between these computations is fifty-seven feet, which divided for an average, and added to the lesser sum, will shew one side to be 721 feet (and a fraction), which multiplied by four, the sum total of the entire square base will be 2884 feet,--that of Copan--viz., 2866 feet, will leave only a difference between the great Pyramidal Edifices in Egypt and Copan of _eighteen feet_! but from diversity in measurement they may be viewed as the fac-similes of each other in regard to the base. This cannot be accidental. Taking Greaves's numbers, each side 693 × 4 = 2772 feet. Stephens's sum total of Copan is 2866, leaving an increase in size over that of the Egyptian of ninety-four feet! Mr. Stephens may, perhaps, have forgotten the measurements in Egypt, although he has travelled there; but we shall have occasion to refer to the ingenious manner in which he endeavours to stay the "imagination" of his readers upon the subject of all the Ruins. The comparative measurements have been brought forward, that the reader may not be misled in reading this work.