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Title: A history of the American nation
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham, 1861- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Chicago, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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said, the description of the world ona chart, and also on a solid sphere which he has constructed, and on whichhe shows where he has been . . . and they say that there the land is excellentand temperate, suggesting that Brasil (Brazil wood) and silk grow there.They affirm that the sea is full of fish, which are not only taken with a net,but also with a basket, a stone being fastened to it, in order to keep it in thewater. Mr. John probably drew the long bow when talking about climateand silk, and indulged in a pleasant fish story or two; but, if it was not eventhen possible to catch the simple cod in a market basket, there were fish inplenty, and not many years passed before the banks of Newfoundland andCape Breton were regularly visited by hardy fishermen from Europe, whotook little interest in affairs of the Great Cham. The discovery of thisfishing region was in itself an important fact in history. 2 xhis is the Latin form of the name. In Italian it is Americo or Amer-igo Vespucci.
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Early Explorations in the New World 12 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION part of Asia, was vivid and interesting. His story, written in a pri-vate letter,^ was printed and widely circulated. In 1507 a youngGerman professor, living at St. Die, in the Vosges Mountains,published a little volume on geography, and with it some lettersof Vespucius, and suggested that, inasmuch as a fourth part ofthe earth had been discovered by Americus, it be called Amer-ica.^ This name came into general use only slowly, being Nuc^o Sch<^partesfuntlatiusIufi:ratce/8<:aliaquartapars per Americii Vefpudu(vt in fequentibus audietur )inuenta eft/qua noii video cur quisiure vctet ab Americo inuentore fagacis ingeni) viAmcriV ro Amerigen quafi Americi terra / fiue Americamca dicendatcu Sc Europa Sc Afia a mulieribus fua for tita riiitnoiiiina.Eius fitu 8c gentis mores ex bis binis Americi nauigationibus quae fequuntliqoidcintelligi datur. Facsimile of the Sentence in which America Was First Named, fromTHE Cos

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