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Show V"" . ' THE NAilK AMKHWA DISCOVERY OF FIRST MAP ON WHICH IT APPEARED. Precious Document Hat Been Esqerly Sought for Four Centunee Draw Ing of the Then New Continent la Rather Vague. After neorly four centuries ..f mystery mys-tery tho flist map on which the name of America was used to designate tho Western Hemisphere has been fniinil. It waa made hy Mnrliu Waldsecmul-lor, Waldsecmul-lor, a geographer ami rirtogrnpher of the little city t.r St. Dhl, stunted In tln French department of tli Vosgos. Ever since t!.o c,.r l.'.o; tho world has known of a Utile l.atln bisik, printed In St. 1)1, ! ami male famous because It firm advocated that tho now henilsiloro should ho called America, after Amorlco Vespucci. "I do ruit aw who run rightfully oli.' -ot to Ita being called 'Land of Anicrlco,' or 'America,'" said tlia writer, "from Amorlco, or Amerigo, tho name of tho sagacious man of genius who discovered It. slnco Iho names 'F.urope' and 'Aula' with derived de-rived from the nanira of women." From certain references In tho book It wna I'vldi'tit that It waa accompanied accompan-ied hy sotne aort of map, jot tho .imp waa missing. Copies were found of a map which geographers believed belonged be-longed to Iho book, hut atlll no nun know what had become of the original. origi-nal. It waa finally prayed that Wald-sncmuller Wald-sncmuller wrote tho hook, and certain niapji were found bearing bis name. A ' ft Thla la Believed to Be the First Map Ever Made en Which the Name J i "America" Was Used to Designate the Western Hemisphere. 1 bnt not the coveted map for which the world had bnon seeking so Ion. The search had boon ahandonod and the subject almost forgotten when a ' ; German profoasor alunihlod over the missing map In tho princely library of til 8 castle of Wolfogg. Hero It bad ;l lain hidden amid time of rich moroc- n Co and parchment. n The i;rnfoi.sor's nnme waa Joseph n 1 Fischer, of F.'"irch. who waa making r an examination nf the library of .. Prince Francis, of Walburg Wulfegg. Ho found "a volume or ureal size." says "Tho Monthly llulletln of the In ternational Bureau of American Ite-publlrai." Ite-publlrai." "arttqimrlan folio, Gothic atyle. substantially bound, and hav-B(, hav-B(, I Inn for Ita covura two booch boarda, 1 euppltod with clasps or brass fasten- ers, Ui which wore, found united, its- ; forming a kind of atlaa. various .-a loaves of three distinct maps. th "One of those waa the original mi Waldseemullor map of 1007. which bad been ao persistently aoarched for ilor T k " ni of wnlcn ,0 nc" ueen P0 I ken. magnltlcontly printed In twelve ir'IH A sltoeta. and In an excellent state r,'l of preaorvatlon." toe The prlnco permitted the map to be photoKraphed, so that the fucalmlllea the which have boen made public are cor ner met reproductions. (), Whon IU parts are put together the Waldseomuller map measures S foot wide and 4 foot hint). It represents repre-sents the new continent with a vagueness which seems comical to a $ltr oian ' to-day. Yet when one consid er! -that It waa drawn only flfloen years after Columbus had crossed gram the Atlantic on his flr.it voyngo. tt Is .hard possible to understand tho cloudiness 1an,l with which the new land Is bounded. A few of the West Indies nro depleted by clumxy blotches and North Anierl-f"""V Anierl-f"""V ca Is pinched Into a Btrlp of Innil, less' which looks more like an attenuated Idler Island than a continent. The propor- ,lril tlom of South America are more near ",,rntfo thn truth, and represent to a certain extent the V shape character of that continent. Tho namo "America" ap-1 ap-1 pears written transversely In capita! letters In the southern part of the ru continent to tho north of the Tropic indent ! of Capricorn. . arabesques whlqh cnilnlllah tho bows, which In this utilitarian ace are replaced re-placed by ordinary metal rluus. Tho keys were first cast and then chiseled chis-eled by 1111 rs port arllmin. The so-called so-called "Stn,..l key," formerly tho property of Henri 111 of France, changed hands a few years a'o for tho pnormous sum of f 0. Tho bow represents two sphinxes with grotesque heads, bac k to back. n the j rnpllsl of a column. The litem Is In the form of two concentric pipes; tho bit Is ihnvMc.l lll:e a very line comb. Another fnTious, key dutes from tho beginning of lie seventeenth century; the elnhornto bow represents two |