What is "carolana"

Carolana was an American colony projected by Daniel Coxe, an English physician and land speculator.

By 1698 Coxe had acquired title to the Sir Robert Heath grant of 1629, under which he claimed the region in the rear of the Carolina settlements and including the lower Mississippi Valley. The expedition which was sent out to plant the colony landed at Charleston, South Carolina. But, one ship sailed up the Mississippi River for 100 miles; turning back when Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville informed the captain, on September 15, 1699, that the French already occupied the region. (See Louisiana (New France).) Coxe reasserted his claim to the territory, but his colony never materialized.