1. darien scheme a project to plant a colony on the Atlanticside of the Isthmus, which was so far carried out that some 1200 leftScotland in 1698 to establish it, but which ended in disaster, and created among the Scotch, who were the chief sufferers, an animus against the English, whom they blamed for the disaster, an animus which did not for long die out.
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