Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-03-24
ORIGIN OF MINES OF eTATEs.

rietta of England, " o was said to own that
Province This Is the commonly received
opinion.
New Hampshire-Named by John Mason,
in 1899 (who with another obtained the grant
from the CROWN, from Hampshire county, i'll
England The former name of the domain
was I,aoonia.
Vermont-From the French words 81 verd
mont, or green mountain, indicative Of the
mountainous nature of the State. The name
was first officially recognized January 10, 1T77.
Massachusetts - Indian name, signifying
''the country about the great hills.
Rhode Island-The name was adopted in
1871 from the Island of Rhodes, in the Med
iterranean, because of its fanciful resemblance
to that island
Connecticut-Th is the English ortho
graphy of the Indian word ''Quon- ia cut, y
which signifies "a long river"
New York-Named by the Duke Of York
under color of title given by the English
crown in 1864.
New Jersey-So called in honor of Sir
George Carteret, who was Governor of the
Island of Jersey in the British Channel
Pennsylvania - From William Penn, the
founder of the new colony, meaning 'Penn .
Woods"
Delaware-In honor of Thomas West, Lord
de laWare, who visited the bay and died there
in 1910
Maryland - After Henrietta Marie, the
Queen of Charles [ of England.
Virginia-So called in honor of Queen
Elizabeth, the ''Virgin Queen. in whose
reign Sir Walter Raleigh made the first at
attempt to coonize that region
North and South Carolina were originally
IN one tract, called Carolina. after Charles II
Of France, III 1901. subsequently IN 1868,
the name Was altered
t1torgla-So called in homer cf George II.
Of England, who established a colony in that
region
Florida-Fonce De Leon, VINO discovered
TINS portion Of North America in 1919, named
it Florida in conimctnorat!on Of the day he
landed there, which was Pasqua c;e Florida
Of the Sg,aniards, or Feast Of Flowers,
otherwise known as Easter Sunday,
Alabama Formerly q portion of Misslss-
ippi Iorltory, admitted into the Union as a
state i'll l6lO The name IS Of Indian origin,
sierifying Here We rest.
Mississippi Formerly portion cf the pro
vince Of Louisiana. So named in 1900 from
the great river on the western line. The
terra is o1 Indian origin, meaning the Long
river"
Loa:eiaua-From Louis NV. Of France,
who, for some time prior to 1853 ownsd the
territory.
Arkansas-From "Kansas." the Indian
name for smoky water, with the French
prefix 'arc," bow.
Tennessce-Indian fer The rjyer Of the
big bend, i. E., the Mississippi, which is its
western boundary.
ken.uo5y-Int}ian Ger AT the head Of the
river
rl>lo~ From the Indian, meaning ''beauti-
fol, ':,E.ously applied to the river that
travcrs.s Z great part Of It's borders.
Michigan Previously applied to the lake,
the INDIAN name for fish weir. So called
from the iaacied resemblance Of the lake to a
ash trap.
lndiana-So called in 1902 from American
Indians.
Illinois From the Indian ''ilini, man,
and the French Butix 'ois, " together signify
lng tribes Of men.
Wisconsin Indian name for wild, rusil-
INC channel.
Missouri Named in 1920 from the great
branch of the mississippi which flows through
it. Indian term meaning muddy.
Iuwa-FIon the Indian, signifying the |
irowsy ones.
Mnnesota-Indlan for cloudy weather"
Caliiorma-The name given h. Cortes, the |
iiscoverer Of that region. He probably OBJ
aimed it from an old Spanish romance, in
y hicn an imaginary island OF that name is de-
cribed as Astounding in gold
Oregou-Accordlng to some from the In
an, ''Oregon, river Of the west. Others
usidcr l. derived from the Spanish ''ore-
no, VI majoram, which grows on the /
'.cl.lc coast Worcester Gazette,
THK LARGEST or LAND ANIMALS. In the
asst number of The American Journal Of
5cionce and Arts, Professor Marsh describes
lie largest land animal yet known to have ex-
sted on she globe Its name is AlIantosaurus
The thigh bone of this creature is
,ver eight feet long $500 mm), with
at the larger end of twenty five in
hes, though the bone has no true head. A
COMPARISON Of this bone with the famur Of a
rocodile, would indicate that the fossil sau-
IN, if Of sin-ilar proportions, had a total