In the last quotation but one, he distinctly uses the word "resemblance," preceded by that of "strong," to enforce the similitude to the Egyptian; and in the last quotation he says, that the hieroglyphical plinth is "analogous _again_ to the custom of Egypt!" As he has visited, and written of the statues of the Nile, we will not gainsay his judgment even by a suspicion. The statues on the building, surmounting the pyramidal base at Uxmal, (Waldeck's folio) strongly resemble the general character of the Egyptian,--the head-dress and cape especially,--the difference is, that otherwise than the lappet, hood, and cape,--the figure is entirely naked,--whereas the Egyptian statues generally possess the additional costume of the loin-cloth. "They [the Ruins] are different from the works of any other _known people_, of a _new order_, and entirely and absolutely anomalous: they stand alone." Every people (he argues) and the nations known at the present day, by history, _or by ruins_, have been searched in order to identify by _fac-simile_ resemblance, but in vain,--though Egypt, we have shewn, claims the bases and many attendant analogies. What Nation then ever existed (possessing _navigable_ means) of whose works by Architecture and Sculpture we have no knowledge?--"That is the question,"--and that answered, it will aid the solving of the mysterious problem around the _Ruins_. Then here is the answer, without any fear of contradiction or denial. _The only nation is the Tyrian!_--that name is used in its triple or Phœnician sense, and comprehends Sidon, Tyrus, and Carthage,--not a remnant remains whereby the slightest form can be traced, save the mere foundations of their former greatness! Egypt was the neighbour of the Tyrian, and consequently imparted her knowledge through commercial communion. The inhabitants of Tyrus from their small locality [_i. e._ the Island] were essentially a practical people,--they had no space to build idle or useless edifices, like those of Egypt,--_they had no captives_! The Tyrians were of all people of the ancient world, best adapted to imitate what was of utility and stability,--thence their selecting pyramidal bases, as _foundations_ for their Temples in America, and which have preserved those edifices, and the judgment of the builders, even to this day, through a period of time beyond two thousand years! It also evinced that acuteness and skill, in applying means to ends, for which, as a Nation, they were so renowned. In Section 3, of the Analogies, we will establish from Scriptural History the early Architecture (as to its style) of the ancient Tyrians.