From the foregone extract can any reader acquainted with the Arts, fail to arrive at the conclusion, that the builders of Palenque and Uxmal derived from the Egyptians all that was good of their great edifices, and _improved_ upon the other parts? For what reader will deny, that a Temple erected upon the lower portion of a Pyramid, is an improvement upon the original, by the association of utility? And being an improvement, _it must have been by those acquainted with the Original_, and as remarked in the following pages, what Nation had the facility of being so acquainted as the Tyrian? And as if in direct copy of the Egyptian, we have shewn that the size of the pyramidal base at Copan is identical with that of the great Pyramid of the Nile,--while that at Cholula, in Mexican America, _is exactly twice_ the base measurement. It is scarcely possible that these dimensions should have been accidental in construction. "There is then," he says, "_no resemblance_ in these remains to those of the Egyptians; _and failing here we look elsewhere in vain_." His conclusions upon false premises, would indeed prove "no resemblance:" but, truth and her all-powerful propositions are against him,--his own descriptions, and those of his attendant artist crush him at every step,--they both prove "_resemblance_" in every Ruin;--at Copan, pyramidal structures, idol-obelisks, and sepulchral chamber: at Palenque, profile figures, and square-based, pyro-foundations: at Uxmal the same, with a Colonnade of circular Columns,--and at the second city (Palenque) a stone _statue_ is even found, and from the engraving, Egypt, or her Tyrian neighbour, would instantly claim it. Of this statue he writes. (Vol. ii., p. 349.) "We were at once struck with its expression of serene repose, _and its strong resemblance to Egyptian Statues_. (!) In height it is ten feet six inches, of which two feet six inches were under ground. The head-dress is lofty and spreading: there are holes in [near] the place of ears, which perhaps were adorned with ear-rings of gold and pearls. Round the neck is a necklace: and pressed against the breast by the right hand, is an instrument apparently with teeth." In the wood-cut this "instrument with teeth" is no more or less, than part of a muralled crown, and it may have been, therefore, the Statue of the Guardian of the City. The Tyrian Coins have the muralled crown on the head of the obverse profile, which represents Astartē, the tutelary Goddess of the Tyrians and Sidonians. "The left hand rests on a _hieroglyphic_, from which descends some symbolical ornament: the figure stands on what we have always considered a _hieroglyphic_ (plinth) _analogous again to the custom in Egypt_ of recording the name and office of the hero, or other person represented."