CALEDONIA BAY. 



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Caledonia Bay, about 120 miles south-east of San Bias B.iy, and not far from 

 Putricanti, largest village of the Cuna Indians, revives the memory of earlier 

 attempts at colonisation. An inlet in the bay bears the name of Puerto Escocès, 

 " Scotch Port," so named, like the bay itself, from a group of Scottish immigrants 

 who settled in this district under the financier, Patterson, in 1698. For Patterson 

 this was the " key of the world," and Puerto Escocès might well have become 

 one of the world's portals had the British Government come to his aid against the 



Fig. 153. — Peojectkd Cuttings aceoss the Isthmuses of Panama and Daeien. 



Scile 1 : 3,8C0.0r0. 



Depths. 



to 100 

 Fathoms. 



100 Fathoms 

 and upwards. 



-— . 60 Miles. 



Spaniards and Indians, and constructed a road across the isthmus at this point. 

 But the climate and homesickness soon decimated the Scotch settlers, and the 

 survivors were dispersed in 1700 by a Spanish squadron ; in 1827 the ruins of 

 Patterson's fort were still visible. 



The neighbouring port, Carreto, had in 1513 witnessed the departure of more 

 illustrious pioneers, Nunez de Balboa and his followers, who in that year started 

 to discover the South Sea, which they happily reached in twenty-three days. At 



