Daniel Coxe, projector of Carolana, was an English doctor of medicine of some distinction, a court physician under Charles II and Queen Anne, and a fellow of the Royal Society. His pioneer experiments to determine the effect of nicotine upon animals and his chemical contributions to the Philosophical Transactions are quite forgotten, 7 but the pamphlet compiled by his son from his Carolana memorials remains one of the curiosities of the literature of colonial promotion. [Note 7; G. D. Scull, 'Biographical Notice of Dr. Daniel Coxe, of London,' in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography... For a somewhat too favorable view of Coxe's credibility as an historian of the early western movement, see F. E. Melvin, 'Dr. Daniel Coxe and Carolana,' in MVHR.] For a scientist Coxe was strangely credulous. 'I believe he is an honest gentleman and a very good doctor,' declared Francis Nicholson, 'but I am afraid several people have abused the Doctor's good nature and generosity by telling him of Strange Countries and giving him Mapps thereof.'8 Before Coxe developed his grand project of a vast western empire he had been concerned in a variety of typical colonial enterprises, none very successful, for fishing, commerce, mining, the production of naval stores, and for trade with the Indians. These ventures had centered chiefly in the Jersies, where the Doctor had become a great proprietor. 9 Indeed, from 1687 to 1692 he was in sole possession of the government of West Jersey.