The recruits for Caledonia of the rysing-sun, their farewell to old Scotland..
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1699
Place of publication: Edinburgh]
Language: eng
Subjects: Poetry; Broadsides; Commerce; History; Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies
Other titles: Recruits for Caledonia of the rising-sun, their farewell to old Scotland
Notes: Caption title.

Place of publication suggested by European Americana.

Signed following text in second column: By a volunteer in this expedition. In the kyles of Bute September, 13. 1699.

Poem, in two long stanzas, printed in two columns.

The first four lines of the first stanza reads: "God the first mover of ev'ry thing that is, / Mov'd Scottish hearts to this great enterprize, of setting forth, for a new colonie: / On Indians shore, where great rich treasures be,".

Another imprint of this broadside printed in Edinburgh the same year was issued by J. Watson, junior (European Americana, 699/177).

A reprint of this poem appeared in the book "Various pieces of fugitive Scottish poetry", second series, printed in Edinburgh, 1853 (Scott, 88).

Scott, J. Bibliography of printed documents and books relating to the Darien company (Supplement), 87b

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, page 399

European Americana, 699/176

Purchase; before 1906; 06086.