A just and modest vindication of the Scots design, for the having established a colony at Darien [microform] : with a brief display, how much it is their interest, to apply themselves to trade, and particularly to that which is foreign.
Ferguson, Robert,-1714.
Hodges, James.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.],
1699.
Attributed by some authorities to James Hodges. Cf. Halkett and Laing, Dict. of anon. and pseud. lit.; Sabin, Dict of books rel. to America, 32340; Hazlit, Bibl. collect., 3d ser., sup.
On question of Ferguson's authorship, cf. Dict. nat. biog.; James, Ferguson's Robert Ferguson the plotter, 1887, p. 333; and A short vindication of Phil. Scot's Defence of the Scots abdicating Darien, 1700, p. 48.
Sabin 32340
Microfiche.