The Pine-tree coast . ate of things cameabout. Assuming thai •• Nbrumbega must of necessity be a word of native origin, it has been urgedthat it should be applied according to the genius Of aboriginal tongues; that is to say, to somemarked geographical feature, nr some peculiar means of identification, rather than to a coun-try. It would seem to concern us more to know what the name stood for with navigators andcosmographers of the time, than what we may think it ought to mean at the present day. Onall the earliest maps Norumbega is always a country. The evidence offered that Norumbega is Indi
The Pine-tree coast . ate of things cameabout. Assuming thai •• Nbrumbega must of necessity be a word of native origin, it has been urgedthat it should be applied according to the genius Of aboriginal tongues; that is to say, to somemarked geographical feature, nr some peculiar means of identification, rather than to a coun-try. It would seem to concern us more to know what the name stood for with navigators andcosmographers of the time, than what we may think it ought to mean at the present day. Onall the earliest maps Norumbega is always a country. The evidence offered that Norumbega is Indian is at most inconclusive. Both Ilakluyt and Thevct assert that it is not Indian. Theconcluding syllable, as written by French authorities, means a stammerer. Attention is alsocalled to the name of the city of Nuremberg, in Bavaria, which takes in Spanish the form ofNuromberga, and in Latin and Italian that of Xorimberga. On Ruscellis map of 1561, thename Nurumberg is, in fact, attached to the region in
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