Show I THE NAME AMERICA DISCOVERY OF FIRST MAP AP ON WHICH JT n- I APPEARED Precious Document ment Has Been Eagerly Sou ht tor Four Centuries Centuries Draw Draw Drawing ing inQ of the Then New Continent Is Rather RatheY Rather V Vague ague Alter After nearly four centuries of mystery mystery mystery mys mys- tery the first map on which which- the ti name Mime me of or America was used to designate the Western Vestern Hemisphere has been found It was made by Martin ler a geographer and cartographer o othe of the little city of St. St Diel situated in inthe inthe inthe the French department of the Ever since the he year 1507 the world has known of a little Latin book printed in St. St Diel and made famous because it Il first advocated that the new hemisphere should be called America after Americo Vespucci I do not see who can rightfully object to its being called called- Land of Americo or America said the writer from Americo or Amerigo the name of the sagacious man of genius who discovered it Il since the names Europe and Asia were derived derived derived de de- rived from the nam names s of women From certain references In the book it was was evident that it was accompanIed accompanied by some sort of map yet the map was missing Copies Caples were found of a Ia ate map which geographers believed belonged belonged belonged be be- longed to the the book boole but still no one one knew what had become of the original origl- origl naL It was finally proved that Wald- Wald the book and certain maps were found bearing his name but not the coveted map map for which the world had been beeri seeking so long The search had been abandoned and the subject almost almost- forgotten when aGerman a aG aGerman G German professor stumbled over the missing map In the princely library of f the castle of Wolfegg Here it had hadl l lain ln hidden amid tomes tames of rich morocco co and parchment The professors professor's name came was Joseph Fischer of who was making an examination of or the library of I Prince Francis of Walburg I r y y 6 Aty Its 41 f I I I F r i- i 5 J This Is Believed to Be the First Map Ever Made on Which th the Name America Was Used to Designate the Western Hemisphere re 0 He found a volume of great size says The The Monthly Monthly Bulletin of of the International International International In In- Bureau of American Republics Re Re- publics antiquarian folio Gothic i style substantially bound and having having having hav hav- ing for Its covers two be beech ch boards supplied with clasps or brass fasteners fasten fasten- ers in which were found united tormina formin a kind of aU atlas as various leaves of ot three distinct maps One of If these was the original map maJ of 1507 which I had been so persistently searched forand for forand forand and of which so much had bad been spoken spoken spoken ken magnificently printed in twelve sheets and in an excellent state of preservation The prince permitted the map to be photographed so that the which have been made public are correct correct cor cor- cor correct r reproductions productIons When its parts are put together the map measures 8 feet wide and 4 feet high It represents represents represents the new continent with a vagueness which seems comical to a aman aman aman man of or to Yet when one considers consid consid- ers that It was drawn only fifteen years after Columbus had crossed the Atlantic on his first Voyage it is p possible to understand the cloudiness with which the new land is bounded A few of the West Indies are depicted by clumsy blotches and North Ameri Ameri- ca Is pinched into a strip of land which looks more like an attenuated island than a continent The proportions proportions of or South America are more near the truth ruth and represent to a certain extent the V chap shap character of that at continent The name America l 1 rica appears appears ap ap- p. p pears written transversely in capital capUa letters In the southern part of the continent to the north of the Tropic of Capricorn |