. The student's American history . 499 (after Columbus had made his thirdvoyage and had discovered the mainland at the mouth of theOrinoco) Americus Vespucius, a Florentine, a friend of Colum-bus, sailed with a Spanish expedition which explored part ofthe same coast.^ Two years later (1501) he made anothervoyage and touched Brazil. On his return he suggested thatthe lands he had visited in the south should be called the New World.^** The next year (1503) Vespucius again visitedSouth America and built a fort on the coast of Brazil. On hisreturn he wrote a brief account of his voyages, but the o
. The student's American history . 499 (after Columbus had made his thirdvoyage and had discovered the mainland at the mouth of theOrinoco) Americus Vespucius, a Florentine, a friend of Colum-bus, sailed with a Spanish expedition which explored part ofthe same coast.^ Two years later (1501) he made anothervoyage and touched Brazil. On his return he suggested thatthe lands he had visited in the south should be called the New World.^** The next year (1503) Vespucius again visitedSouth America and built a fort on the coast of Brazil. On hisreturn he wrote a brief account of his voyages, but the originalmanuscript has never been found. 13. How America received its name.— A copy of theaccount written byVespucius chancedto fall into the handsof a German namedWaldseemiiller. Hewas a teacher ofgeography in thecollege of St. Die —a village of Lorrainenow included in eastern France. The college owned a smallpress; on it in 1507 Waldseemiiller printed a thin Latin pam-phlet bearing the title An Introduction to Geography.^^ In. The Village of St. Di^, Eastern France. TO THE STUDENTS AMERICAN HISTORY. [1515-. it he described the three continents of Kurope, Asia andAfrica ; he then gave an account of the voyages of AmericusVespucius, and closed by saying, The fourth part of theworld having been discovered by Americus it may be called. . the land of Americus or Awrr/ra.^^ The suggestion met with favor. On a German globe madein 1515 we find America standing out in capitals on whatappears to be a great southern islantl in the western name was at first confined to South America ; later it wasapplied to both of the western continents. 14. How it was discovered that America was a continent;Magellan; Behriug. — But for a long time North Americawas laid down on the maps of that period as an island. Thetrue continental character of the New World was discoveredgradually.^^ Cabot and \espucius must have suspected it. butit was not until Magellan made his famous vovage rou
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