. Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan . APPENDIX. 433 pcan) at Arpino, in the Neapolitan Territory; No. 4, the most commos. form of arch used by the ancient American builders. A striking resem-blance will doubtless be observed, indeed, they may almost be consideredidentical; and it may be added, that at Medeenet Haboo, which forms a partof the ancient Egyptian Thebes, a similar contrivance was observed by From this it will appear that the true principles of the archwere not understood by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, ©r Etruscans, or bythe American buil
. Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan . APPENDIX. 433 pcan) at Arpino, in the Neapolitan Territory; No. 4, the most commos. form of arch used by the ancient American builders. A striking resem-blance will doubtless be observed, indeed, they may almost be consideredidentical; and it may be added, that at Medeenet Haboo, which forms a partof the ancient Egyptian Thebes, a similar contrivance was observed by From this it will appear that the true principles of the archwere not understood by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, ©r Etruscans, or bythe American builders. It might be supposed that a coincidence of thisstrongly-marked character would go far to establish an ancient connexionbetween all these people; but, without denying that such may have beenthe case, the probabilities are greatly the other way. This most simple mode of covering over a void space with stone, whensingle blocks of sufficient size could not be employed, would suggest itselfto the most barbarous as well as to the most refined people. Indeed, in amound lately opened in the Ohio Valley, two circular chambers were dis-covered,
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