The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . The Cabot Memorial Tower atBristol, England. 14 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION. Amerigo Vespucci. and Vespucci was sent to explore the region. His three shipsseem to have followed about eighteen hundred miles of coast, and Vespucci himself entered themouth of the Rio de la Plata,or Plata River. The discoveriesof Cabral and Vespucci securedBrazil to Portugal. The report of Vespuccis workgreatly interested Europe. Ves-pucci was not only aThe naming „qq^ explorer but anof America „ , , . , excellent chronicler as well, and h
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . The Cabot Memorial Tower atBristol, England. 14 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION. Amerigo Vespucci. and Vespucci was sent to explore the region. His three shipsseem to have followed about eighteen hundred miles of coast, and Vespucci himself entered themouth of the Rio de la Plata,or Plata River. The discoveriesof Cabral and Vespucci securedBrazil to Portugal. The report of Vespuccis workgreatly interested Europe. Ves-pucci was not only aThe naming „qq^ explorer but anof America „ , , . , excellent chronicler as well, and his accounts of hisexplorations were widely had been traditions formore than twenty centuries thatthe world contained four of these, Europe, Asia, andAfrica, were known; the greatnew continent to the southwest was looked upon as the fourthpart. ^ Waldseemliller, a German geographer, proposed callingthe fourth part America, in honor of Amerigo Vespucci. Thisname was in time applied to the whole northern and southerncontinent. Completing the Discovery of America. — The growing belief thatthe new land was not a part of As
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