| Show OIIIUIN UfA3IHllUA The derivation of Ibo lIme Ameitca from Amerigo Vettuoel liai never given tillilacllon tuiludenti of the Inlullnl but decor iubccl lu tin host place objection hat teen relied on the ground that It t < cot ruiloiniry lo name places after tbo Cbrlitliu Dime ofdlicoTereri Thit tin name at a p whole continent should form an u cejtlon seem atmcit Incredible Then tome doubt lie been relied on the ground tint Veiiucoli fltit uttne was not Atnirluo In coteNiporaueotit document It appeere In Tirloui form II usually written Atnerlfrho but ilio Almtrlfto Albrrlullo Danierliho anJ other Tailatlout And illll more doubt exliliai to the fact rrgtrdliig tonic of his alleged illicoTcrlti on thus col tlueut ana history hat long ago I renounced re-nounced Ibe verdict that lie wn at beat k third rl nttvltffttip who probably like 1 many other would I barn been far Rotten had 1 not theorist ooiinccled bit name wllli that of Ibo Wtilcin world For these reasons a more latUfaolory splauatlon baa been looked for Jule llircou a French geologist bat now ailvanced a theory willed la at lent eutlllrd lo aoine eonilderatlon Acoortlliigto him there till cxlili a mall tribe of Indian not far from the Morqulto most known ai the Am iiierliuei Their countijr It rich In gold and la iltualed between LIke Mcaragua and the Atlantic The name of the mountain rang and of Ibo bolllloI 1s ealJ to lava been known at Ibo Ainmerliuea for oeuturlet Co lunilut II It further said on lili louitli cud lut voyage In 1602 stopped near Ibe mouth of the JtU llama on the Jloiqultu coast not for from where Illutnelil now It I iltuated The Uarlb Indians InbabltloB the coast were very friendly toward Ooluiubui and lili itllori tnJ no doubt tolJ them of the rich gold land In the Amm rliue range of mountaIn And from these narrative li thought likely that the name Arntuerlcajan4 afterward America came to dcilguate bolo contlnrnl In 1507 the author of a geographical Walk topoitd to glle to Ibo New World the name of America but a map publlihed the following year did not contain II In 1509 however how-ever II wee adopted 1 In an nuoujliuui work eutltled JMui Ujiidl And on the map of Leonardo da Vlucl 151 Ameilca wai oUlruod aoroii the southern centlnenl fly this time It thoughtIhe fame Animeilqutlhe gold land had been ao widely clrcu tiled among European nation by the frlendi of Columbus and lilt one hundred hun-dred and hay sailors that It was pro tlcally adopted at a uulTerial deilgua tlouof Ibo country WhatoTer may ba thought of this theory when It shall hare been further Investigated It certainly sound more plausible more natural than Mr JIaJora lo whom Ibo world largely la I Indebted for Information that the Urged continent of the globe wee named 10 left cluto the memory of a navigator ol Inferior rank who may or may not bn set hit font upim three oilebrated iborei |
