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- Title: Donalblane of Darien
- Author : James Macdonald Oxley
- Release Date : January 01, 1907
- Genre: Action & Adventure,Books,Young Adult,Fiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 490 KB
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It was not just an ordinary sort of name, but one of those which made you think "thereby hangs a tale". In this case the thought goes to the mark, and the tale in question will be told after a fashion in the following pages. At the outset a quick glance back to times long past is necessary in order to a fair start, and without a fair start it were hardly worth going ahead. As the seventeenth century drew to its close there came into prominence in England a remarkable Scotsman named William Paterson, among whose notable achievements was having a large share in the founding of the Bank of England, which subsequently grew to be the greatest monetary institution in the world.