attention whatever' is not conformable to 
' that styloj of which the Greeks have left 
ft 
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 timC;. 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. 
1. Monuments. 
A. Mexican, 
Statue of a priestess. 
% 
Pyramid of Cholula. 
Fort of Xochicalco. 
