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Show How It Was Named. The origin of the name 'America" has recently been discussed by the geographical society of Berlin. Some held that it came from a range of mountains in Central America called by the natives Aruerique, and thai Vespucci was not called Amerigo, as it is not a name in the saint calendar of Italy. They asserted that he changed his name from Alberigo to Amerigo, after Ihe latter was coming into use as a name for the western world. Signor Govi, however, has proved that Alberi-co, Alberi-co, in the Florentine language, is identical iden-tical with Amerigo, and a letter of Vespucci, dated 1500, found recently in the archives of the duke of Gonzaga, at Mantua, shows that he sometimes subscribed himself as Amerigo. Moreover, More-over, the natives call the mountaine Amerisque, not Amerique, so that the question may bo considered settled in favor of the personal name. |