How America Was Named

Vespucci himself must uot bo held respomsible for the usurpation. The uinconsoioms criminal was a e.ertain Martin "Waldseem-uller, of Fribourg, an eminent cosmcgraplier patronized by Rene Duke oí Lccraine. The Duke ptiobatdy sbowed a letter of Vespucci's to hls geographleal frlend, who incaiTporatcd lts contenta with the treatises which he was Issiiing under tihe assumed niame of "Hylacomyala," aad, aa these publications had a wlde clreulation, tihe use af tihe name America thus became propon