Show THE NAME AMERICA the bulletin of the paris geographical society which has just been issued contains an account of M jules marcon of certain further researches which he has made into the origin of the name Ai america As far back as 1875 he published a paper on the same topic which attracted much attention at the time and he has since devoted much labor to an investigation of early historical documents in which the new world is named the popular notion that america was so called from the christian name of amerigo vespucci is he says wholly unfounded and he sums up his conclusions in this thi way sway 1 amerique is the indian name of the mountains between Julg juigalpa alps and libertad in the province of Chen talea which separate lake nicaragua from the mosquito coast the word in the maya language signifies 11 the windy widdy country or the country where the wind blows always 2 the christian name of vespucci was alberico in italian and spanish Alber Alb erious lous in latin this particular name is subject to an adorm enormous number of variations as the nomenclature and calendars of italian and spanish saints of the period show but nowhere is there any such variation of americus amerige amerigo almerigo etc and none of those is either a diminutive of a variation in use in italy spain or france for alberico or albert A bert 4 before 1507 when jean basin of saint die published the name it is not to be found in any printed document nor even in any manuscript of recognized and incontestable authority mr marcon claims that his theory of a native origin for the name america has been accepted in spain spanish america and with some exceptions in the united states in prance france Gl germany glarmann armany and italy ft t has excited doubt and surprise but in the last named be has the of the eminent turin geographer M guido guide cors core there is no doubt that columbus and vespucci went along the mosquito coast at the feet of the sierra amer icae and that the name was reported rt T kese by the officers and men of these expeditions and the geographer declared in 1615 1515 that the name was already popular in europe according to the london times it is beyond question that one edition of vespuccio letter on his third voyage has the name amerigo in the place of them the christian name nineteen editions had Alb ericus and subsequent italian editions had Albi alberico erico the one with amerigo on the title page was published in 1606 1506 but M marcon suggests that this was never intended to be a variation of alberico but rather an adaptation of amerique a name already known and applied to the new world to vespuccio name dame to distinguish him as we now say chinese gordon to distinguish the particular gordon by suggesting one of his greatest feats the paper which is very learned concerning the geography and geo graphical publications of the sixteenth century is not yet concluded PU philadelphia ladelphia weekly news 0 |