Excerpt from Notes on the Scots' Darien Expedition: Taken From Books and Contemporary Pamphlets in My Possession, June 1888 At the end of the seventeenth century the Celtic part of Scotland had hardly begun to be of interest in the development of the nation, and its position with regard to the world was quite an unknown quantity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.