Pioneer Spaniards in North America . stake. As time went on South America was ascer-tained to be itself part of a great continent. Thenthere was published by Mercator, a famous geog-rapher, a map, which is here reproduced, onwhich, for the first time, the name America wasused to designate the whole Western last stage of the great mistake was notreached until 1538, many years after both Colum-bus and Vespucius were in their graves. Thusthe naming of our continent was finally due tothe arbitrary procedure of a map-maker, whoapplied to it a name first given, in error, to a smallpa
Pioneer Spaniards in North America . stake. As time went on South America was ascer-tained to be itself part of a great continent. Thenthere was published by Mercator, a famous geog-rapher, a map, which is here reproduced, onwhich, for the first time, the name America wasused to designate the whole Western last stage of the great mistake was notreached until 1538, many years after both Colum-bus and Vespucius were in their graves. Thusthe naming of our continent was finally due tothe arbitrary procedure of a map-maker, whoapplied to it a name first given, in error, to a smallpart of it. Altogether, it is a curious story this, of thegradual process by which a name was bestowedon the Western World, not in honor of the greatgenius who led Europe to it across the Sea ofDarkness, but of a comparatively obscure manwhose claim to have discovered anything at allrests wholly on his own statement. One naturallyasks what was the secret of Vespuccis first success,out of which, by a series of mistakes, all the rest 38. •-^h Itui JrMT S W H • I P niJ B i ^,>..^g^^^s^ _-_ THE FIRST MAP ON WHICH THE NAME AMEli A
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