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Spain ordered another expedition, at the head of which 

 was placed Captain Dupaix, with a secretary and 

 draughtsman, and a detachment of dragoons. His ex- 

 peditions were made in 1805, 1806, and 1807, the last 

 of which was to Palenque. 



The manuscripts of Dupaix, and the designs of his 

 draughtsman Castenada, were about to be sent to Mad- 

 rid, which was then occupied by the French army, 

 when the revolution broke out in Mexico ; they then 

 became an object of secondary importance, and re- 

 mained during the wars of independence under the con- 

 trol of Castenada, who deposited them in the Cabinet 

 of Natural History in Mexico. In 1828 M. Baradere 

 disentombed them from the cartons of the museum, 

 where, but for this accident, they might still have re- 

 mained, and the knowledge of the existence of this 

 city again been lost. The Mexican Congress had 

 passed a law forbidding any stranger not formally au- 

 thorized to make researches or to remove objects of art 

 from the country ; but, in spite of this interdict, M. 

 Baradere obtained authority to make researches in the 

 interior of the republic, with the agreement that after 

 sending to Mexico all that he collected, half should 

 be delivered to him, with permission to transport them 

 to Europe. Afterward he obtained by exchange the 

 original designs of Castenada, and an authentic copy 

 of the itinerary and descriptions of Captain Dupaix 

 was promised in three months. From divers circum- 

 stances, that copy did not reach M. Baradere till long 

 after his return to France, and the work of Dupaix was 

 not published until 1834, '5, twenty-eight years after 

 his expedition, when it was brought out in Paris, in 

 four volumes folio, at the price of eight hundred francs, 

 with notes and commentaries by M. Alexandre Lenoir, 



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