4. The Name America[25]
BY HYLACOMYLUS (1507)
AND the fourth part of the world having been discovered by Americus,
it may be called Amerige; that is, the land of Americus or America.
Now truly, since these regions are more widely
explored, and another fourth part is discovered by Americus
Vesputius, as may be learned from the following letters, I do
not see why any one may justly forbid it to be named
Amerige, that is, Americ's Land, after Americus the
discoverer, who is a man of sagacious mind; or call it
America, since both Europa and Asia derived their names
from women.
[[25]]
The first man to suggest the name of America was a German
schoolmaster whose name means "Miller of the Wood Pond." Really Americus
Vespucius discovered very little, and does not deserve to have the
continents named for him.
