Mr. Stephens does not claim China and Japan as the nations building these Cities, but rejects them upon the ground of Architectural comparison. We instantly join in this decision, and to it add the impossibility from the want of navigable means; but, says the Traveller, the supposition is, that they (the vessels) were "_thrown upon the Western_ coast of America," and thereby expressing that the arrival of those vessels was _accidental_. We will prove the impossibility of this,--for any vessel in the North _Pacific_ Ocean, having left China or Japan, and becoming unmanageable from loss of rudder, the prevailing _East-wind_ would not only _prevent_ the vessel from reaching the _Western_ coast of America, _but actually would drive the ship_ BACK _to China or Japan_! This last sentence is not given to refute Mr. Stephens, but those writers who may have (as he states) even "supposed" the possibility of vessels being accidentally "thrown upon the _Western_ coast of America." Nature would prevent it. This celebrated "East-wind" we shall have occasion to analyze and explain, in the investigation of the first voyage around the Continent of Africa by the Tyrians. In the _Pacific_ Ocean the East wind would prevent _accidental_ arrival on the shores of the Western Continent; but in the _Atlantic_ Ocean the same wind would aid and expedite such an arrival, which, however, would be upon the _Eastern_, and not the _Western_ coast of America! "The monuments of India have been made familiar to us. The remains of Hindu architecture exhibit immense excavations in the rock, either entirely artificial, or made by enlarging natural caverns, supported in front by large columns cut out of the rock, with a dark gloomy interior. Among all these American Ruins there is not a single excavation. The surface of the country abounding in mountain sides, seems to invite it; but, instead of being under ground, the striking feature of these Ruins is, that the buildings _stand on lofty artificial elevations_; and it can hardly be supposed that a people emigrating to a new country, with that strong natural impulse to perpetuate, and retain under their eyes _memorials of home_, would have gone so directly counter to _National and Religious associations_." The reasoning in the latter part of the foregone extract, is founded upon Nature, and therefore just,--it cannot be shaken,--it cannot be even assaulted;--we claim this admission, however, for our own position also, when in the next chapter we bring forward the "memorials of home," and the "national and religious associations,"--for upon the Analogies, the corner-stone of this Epoch is founded. "In Sculpture, too, the Hindus differ entirely. Their subjects are far more hideous, being, in general, representations of human beings, distorted, deformed, and unnatural,--very often many-headed, or with three or four arms and legs thrown out from the same body."