la civilisation du Méxique_ (Paris, 1886), and finally Waldeck’s own _Description des Ruines_, followed by the plates, most of which relate to Palenqué. Thus composed, a large volume was published under the general title of _Monuments anciens du Méxique_. _Palenqué et autres ruines de l’ancienne civilisation du Méxique. Collection de vues [etc.], cartes et plans dessinés d’après nature et relevés par M. de Waldeck. Texte rédigé par M. Brasseur de Bourbourg._ (Paris, 1864-1866.)[1059] While Waldeck’s results were still unpublished the ruins of Palenqué were brought most effectively to the attention of the English reader in the _Travels in Central America_ (vol. ii. ch. 17) of Stephens, which was illustrated by the drawings of Catherwood,[1060] since famous. These better cover the field, and are more exact than those of Dupaix. [Illustration: PLAN OF COPAN (RUINS AND VILLAGE). From _The Stone Sculptures of Copán and Quiriguá_ (N. Y., 1883) of Meye and Schmidt.] Bancroft refers to an anonymous account in the _Registro Yucateco_ (i. 318). One of the most intelligent of the later travellers is Arthur Morelet, who privately printed his _Voyage dans l’Amérique Central, Cuba et le Yucatan_, which includes an account of a fortnight’s stay at Palenqué. His results would be difficult of access except that Mrs. M. F. Squier, with an introduction by E. G. Squier, published a translation of that part of it relating to the main land as _Travels in Central America, including accounts of regions unexplored since the Conquest_ (N. Y., 1871).[1061] Désiré Charnay was the first to bring photography to the aid of the student when he visited Palenqué in 1858, and his plates forming the folio atlas accompanying his _Cités et Ruines Américaines_ (1863), pp. 72, 411, are, as Bancroft (iv. 293) points out, of interest to enable us to test the drawings of preceding delineators, and to show how time had acted on the ruins since the visit of Stephens. His later results are recorded in his _Les anciennes villes du Nouveau Monde_ (Paris, 1885).[1062] [Illustration: YUCATAN TYPES. Given by Rosny, _Doc. Écrits de la Antiq. Amér._, p. 73, as types of the short-headed race which preceded the Aztec occupation. They are from sculptures at Copan. Cf. Stephens’s _Cent. America_, i. 139; Bancroft, iv. 101.] [Illustration: PLAN OF THE RUINS OF QUIRIGUA. From Meye and Schmidt’s _Stone Sculptures of Copán and Quiriguá_ (N. Y., 1883).]