A just and modest vindication of the Scots design
Subtitle: for the having established a colony at Darien.  With a brief display, how much it is their interest, to apply themselves to trade, and particularly to that which is foreign ...
Contributors: Hodges, James, supposed author.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1699
Place of publication: [Edinburgh?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Scots -- Darien (Panama and Colombia) -- Early works to 1800; New Caledonia (Colony) -- Early works to 1800; Scotland -- Commercial policy -- Early works to 1800; Darien (Panama and Colombia) -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Sabin 32340.
Title within line borders.
Published anonymously.
Attributed by some authorities to James Hodges.  cf. Halkett and Laing, Dict. of anon. and pseud. lit.; Sabin, Dict of books rel. to America; 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.