| Show oritia r of cf annrita Ann risa th the derivation of the name nam Ai america from ArTic amerigo rigo vespucci lias bas never oiven given full sati faction to lc students or of the inter interesting epting but ob subjects says the deseret news in the first place objection lias bast been raised on oil the ground that thai it is not cu customary tomary to name places place after the chriatian name of discoverers cover ers that the name of a whole continent should form an all exception seems almost incredible then some doubt has been raised on tile the ground that vespuccio first name was not amerigo aberion tit in contemporaneous documents it appears in vadious forms it is afu us u ally written n erigo Dim Darne criglio righo and other variations and still more doubt exists us its to the fads facts rez regarding arding so some me of if his alleged discoveries on oil this thi continent and history has long ago pronounced the verdict that li he e was at best 1 a I third clis class navi vittor who probably like many others ra would have been forgotten r had riot not theor theories es connected liis his name with that of f tile the western vi world for these reasons more satish satisfactory aca n lias has been looked for jules farcau a french geologist has now advanced a theory which is at least entitled to some consideration era tion according to him there still exists exist a I 1 tribu of indians indian not far from the mosquito coast known a as the arn am meri ques their country is rich in gold and is situated bettien lake dicara nicara nicaragua 12 tia and tile the atlantic the name of tile the mountain range range b and of tile the aborigines c is said to have been known know n as the ammeli ques for centuries columbus it is further sa ii on oil his fourth and last voyage in 1502 1302 stopped near the bi dilwith ph of tile the rio raina llama on the coast not far from where now is situated the indians inhabiting 11 the coast were very friendly toward columbus and liis his sailors and no doubt told them odthe of the rich C gold old land in the Am range of mountains and from these narratives it is thought likely that the name ammerita Am merica and afterwards america came to desi designate nate the W whole hole continent in 1507 the lie author autho of a geographical gra work proposed to give to the new ey world the name of america but a gnap map published the following 0 year lid did riot not contain it in 1 09 ho however never it was adopted in in an inn work entitled clobus mundi and on oil the map of Lc leonardo onaLdo Leo naido da vinci 1514 1314 america was crimi engraved engi 0 aved across the south arn rn continent by this time it is 0 me aino di the ZD gold land had been so widely widell circulated among european nations a by tile friends of columbus and his bis one hundred and fifty sailors pai lors that it was practically adopted as a universal designation of the count country rv may inay be thought of this theory when it shall have been faither investigated it certainly sounds more plausible more natural than mr majors Ia jors to whom the world largely is indebted for the informal iun a that the largest continent or the alobe was n named allied to the memory of a navigator or of interior inferior rank who may inay or may HOE 1106 have set his feet upon those celebrated shores |
