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attention whatever is not conformable to 

 that style, of which the Greeks have left 

 such inimitable models. 



It might have been preferable to have 

 arranged the materials, contained in this 

 work, in geographical order ; but the diffi- 

 culty of collecting, and terminating at the 

 same time, a great number of plates en- 

 graved in Italy, Germany, and France, has 

 prevented me from following this method. 

 The want of order, compensated, to a 

 certain degree, by the advantage of variety., 

 is also less reprehensible in the descriptions 

 of a Picturesque Atlas, than in a regular 

 Treatise ; and I shall endeavour to remedy 

 this inconvenience by a table, in which 

 the plates are classed agreeably to the na- 

 ture of the objects they represent. 



I. Monuments. 



A. Mexican. 



Statue of a priestess. 

 Pyramid of Cholula. 

 Fort of Xochicalco, 



