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The Scottish Settlement in Panama--Disasters Beset the Scotch Colonists--The Repeated Revolutions of Panama--Early Projectors of a Panama Canal--Sea Level or Lock Canal--A Relic of the French Days--Some of the Finished Work of the French--The Financial Aberrations of De Lesseps--Yellow Fever’s Toll of French Lives--The Value of the French Work.