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Show Brilliant Project Brougnt to Naught. In tho yenr 1694 William Patterson, founder of tho Bnnk of Scotland, conceived con-ceived tho grand project of planting on tho Isthmus of Dnrlcn a British colony which, In bis own words, "Bhould secure for Groat Brllnln the .koyB of tho unlverso, ennbllng tholr possessors to give laws to both oceans and to becomo tho arbiters of the commercial com-mercial world." This colony wns actually actu-ally founded nt n place still known as Puerto Bscoces, but its people were subsequently forced by tho Span-lards Span-lards to ovacunto and return to Scotland, |