CAPTAIN BAUDIff’s EXPEDITION. 3 
®ipediti°u was to occupy only eight months. Provided with 
n^°?!T^ strumenta anc ^ a ^ e draughtsmen, wc were to 
1 1 11 . . ns far as Assouan, after minutely examining 
Tlin?°? ltl0ns . of Said, between Tentyris and the cataracts. 
1n( . !p 1 ! n -’ y ie " s bad not hitherto been fixed on any region 
... n le l ’°P lcs > ' could not resist the temptation of visit- 
li^K * ntr J e V° y'dchratcd in the annals of human civi- 
• - 1 therefore accepted this proposition, but with 
si in i , D 1 P, reSS , ^“ditrni i , that on our return to Alexandria I 
' , i ,, l’ 0 :lt bherty to continue my journey through Syria 
S^me. The studies which' I entered upon witK a 
I oxtmi'nn , l ®, new project, I afterwards fomid useful, when 
of Mnvir. i r !' laUoi - s between the barbarous monuments 
world Tthmli ? 10S0 belonging to tlio nations of the old 
when nolirin f myself on tlic poiut of embarking for Egypt, 
Wis P et r CVCllt ? forced 1110 t0 abandon a 'plan winch 
t romiscd me so much satisfaction. 
direction 1 ^!?? - of disco ,y ci 7 in 1 bo South Sea., under the 
r riio ivio ptain Baudin, -was then preparing in France. 
hy a\iiOTo"efiV^U it ’ and } vor % °f being executed 
0} a more enlightened commander. The mirnosc of this 
“? i»«*sr »fiSu 
Of O ito Sf ’-'T, 0± * U ® nvcr P1; ita to the kingdom 
. tiuito and the isthmus of Panama. After visithw 
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iL™°4 ‘S i"’ “itfSlt!!' 0 i“?f ““» r 
personal character Captain Baudt o W 7?““ 1,1 tl,C 
of discontent to tho court of Vicnm m -1 at ^ g^en cause 
sioned to eoiiduct in t;,.., i C ™?’ " ie )j be was commis- 
ays* 
a nart nf 5*1’- 1vll ° bad already visited Persia and 
apart of North America, and M. Eonpland, with whom 1 
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