Excerpt from Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia: 1695-1696, 1696-1697, 1698, 1699, 1700-1702 In Scotland, this period was marked by the excitement of the attempted fettlement by a Scotch trading company of the Ifthmus of Darien, as the Ifthmus of Panama was then called. Scotchmen of all claffes eagerly took ftock in a company for the fettlement of this region, which, lying between two oceans, would, in the fancy of the promoters of the fcheme, control the trade of the world. The unhealthfulnefs of the region was overlooked, as well as the fact that it was claimed by Spain, and two expeditions were fent, one in 1698 and the other in 1699, to plant the colony. Moft of the adventurers, however, perifhed by difeafe, and in the fpring of 1 700 the feeble remnants were expelled by the Spaniards. The failure of the project was laid upon the fhoulders of King Wil liam, who would not uphold with an armed force the intruders upon the territory of a friendly neighbor. Hence he became in Scotland more unpopular than ever. 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.

"The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776 are the official minutes of the lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature. Throughout the colonial period, the legislature met frequently but irregularly, with sessions lasting from a few days to several weeks; in some years, the legislature did not meet at all."--Section of book, pg. _ or v. _