As a National analogy may be viewed the Military character and locality of Copan,--this, also, strengthens our belief that this city was the first erected,--for although on the Altars no Sculpture is found representing weapons of war,--and in a Temple to Religion there should not be,--yet this Temple is but the centre, of what may be termed the _Citadel_ of Copan. The entire Ruins (it will be remembered) are traceable for a distance of "over two miles," along the banks of the River,--and on the opposite side, at the distance of a mile, and on an eminence two thousand feet high, (thus overlooking every approach to the city,) is found _a ruined Stone Structure_, and almost evident from its locality, to have been originally a signal, or watch-tower. The city is, also, built on the banks of the River, _and above "the falls,"_ thus forming a _natural_ defence against any approach from the Sea,--while any attempt to reach the Citadel by water from the Source of the River, was frustrated by the erection of a high perpendicular wall ("nearly 100 feet"), forming a river façade of "six hundred and twenty-four feet,"--(nearly the eighth of a mile)--this is based upon an elevated embankment of about "thirty feet,"--_and_ was formerly protected from any flooding of the river, by a water-wall along the whole range of the Citadel-Temple. The great wall is in ruins at the summit, therefore many feet may have fallen down,--thus proving that its entire height with the embankment (as before expressed) must have ranged from one hundred and forty, to _one hundred and fifty feet_. Now there is nothing in Egypt (as a plumb-wall) to be compared with this,--nor does the Nile of ancient days, possess a perpendicular wall,--and there is no marine Nation of antiquity that can lay the analogous claim to such a wall, equal to _Tyrus_,--for her Citadel-city in Asia was bordered by the waters of the Tyrian harbour,--and to secure its safety from human invasion, or that of the Sea, the ancient inhabitants of that Island-mart _erected perpendicular walls, one hundred and fifty feet in height_! Copan then possesses an analogy to the capital of ancient Tyrus,--and as that was the _last city_ left by the Aborigines in Asia, it appears but natural that they should endeavour to imitate it, in building their _first city_ in a foreign land. We submit that this is a strong analogy, and founded upon justifiable reasoning. The Wreck of an ancient Galley has been found in Mexican America, deeply imbedded in the sands,--now this must have been (upon a minute investigation) the remains of a Phœnician vessel,--for the Greeks and Romans had no galleys on the Atlantic waters, or even the Indian Ocean, until the time of Alexander,--but the Tyrians had,--and, as will be proved (in the next Book of this Volume), nearly _one thousand years before the Christian Æra_, and _again, six centuries_ before the period of The Advent.