Show THE NAME 1 lie bulletin of tha geological society which lias been contains in account by M jules mar ion 0 certain faither researches which he has made into ane orgin of the name ameilla Vs fir back a 18 he published a pa er on the same topic which attracted much at the time and he has devoted much laberto an investigation ot early hl boncal documents in which the vsev orld is named the popular notion that america was BO called from the name of amerigo esi acci is he sas wholly unfounded and 1 e sums up his in this w ay 1 amerique Ameri quo is tha indian name of the mountains beaw een and libertad in the ce et chontales Chon tales separate lake me aragua from the mosquito coast the word in the maya lin guage signifies the windy country or the country where the wind blows always 2 the christian name of v was al bedico in italian and spanish and 1 bencus in latin this particular name is subject to an enormous number of variations as the iture ana calendars of italian and saints of the show but nowhere is any such variation of americus merigo Mroe rigo etc and none of these is cither a almin i tive of a variation in use in italy anin or trance for or abert 4 before when acan harln of saint die published the narue it is not to be found in any printed do cumont noi even in any t of and incontestable authority M alarcon claims that ins 11 ry t a origin for tl e name aberici 1 as been accepted in pain i anish amaca and ft ith some exceptions in the T mates in france germany and italy it has excited doubt and but in the last named it has the of the eminent genara phoi M gado lore els no doubt that columbus ad V went along the mosquito coast at the feet of the ieiri anath was aci arted by the and men of these expeditions and shoner the ge 1 cr in that the name w is already poi ular in I 1 drope it is beyond q edition of depucci letter on 1 is tl ir I 1 vo age has the name in the place of the christian name nineteen hal ai d italian editions hd 1 le ne with on title t age was published in ixil but M that this was i ever intended to be a v aria tion of albeno but an adapts lion of i name already and applied to tie new A orl I 1 to s name to distin aguish 1 im as we now say chinese doiron to distinguish the gaidon by suggesting one of his grifft est feats T |