The Ruins in Ancient America, together with relative facts, prove that Sahagun's account in regard to _time_ is correct; and that their original ancestors _did_ arrive before the Christian Æra. The same Historian says, that from their historical traditions, the Mexican Aborigines were originally a Colony;--which term may be received as explanatory of their small _number_, and that only,--for had they been "a Colony" according to the modern and general acceptation of the word, there would have been some Mother-land to claim her foreign Children,--but, none appears upon the Books of History. They then arrived "before the Christian Æra,"--this then places them in a positive position,--for the Nation from whence they came, must have existed before that sacred period,--and the Nation (as a people) must have had knowledge of, and the means of Navigation, since it is already established that they arrived in that manner. The "mind's eye" must instantly glance at the Tyrians, as the people having those means, and being in existence anterior to the Christian Æra. The Tyrians did compose that "colony,"--not sent forth from their own land by care and affection; but, driven forth (as we will prove) by terror and despair!--They were the "pilots and mariners," and the "merchant princes" of the desperate hazard:--their knowledge and skill in navigation, were the champions daring the united powers of Neptune and Boreas, and upon a Naumachian arena, where a prow had never cut through a liquid track: Neptune permitted the refugees to pass on to freedom,--for the Ocean-God remains now, as when he first received from Creation upon his broad breast, the panoply of Light,--_scarless_:-- and for all the wild wars of Elements and Man upon that panoply,--the lightning's rapid shafts,--the iron-tempest from earth's artillery,--still that bright armour--reflecting Heaven on its surface--retains no impress from the fierce battery of the Storm-cloud, or from Man's weaker power, or ambition! SECTION III. ARTISTICAL ANALOGIES. ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE, AND PAINTINGS--THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT AND AMERICA--THE ANCIENT TYRIAN DYE--THE TEMPLES OF JERUSALEM AND PALENQUE, &c.