Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-29
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LONG ISLAND SOUND.

LONG ISLAND SOUND.
Its Early Approaches-An Interest,"
ing Historical Discovery Made In
London-Touching Our Coast-A
Valuable Paper Read by Captain
c. H. TOwnshend Before the New
Haven Colony Historical Society.
AS an introduction to this paper, which
has been made up from fragments CLEANED
in Europe and America, and will be to
some extent repetition of history, I
shall give synopsis of facts relative to
the early discovery of that part of the
North American coast known now as south
ern New England, lying between Cape Cod
in Massachusetts and Sandy Hook in New
Jersey These '1andfalls' are distant from
each other about two hundred nautical
miles, covering a coast line within the
limits of the states of Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York.
will also make brief mention regard
ing the original or native name of our con-
tinent which it bore before the Columbian
discovery, and point out how by accident
and a combination of circumstances, the
world has been led into the error, that
America was named after Vespucci,
F1orentine map-maker, who enlightened
Europe on the discoveries Of Columbus.
Am-ar-ca is the native name of the land
which Columbus discovered in 1893 near
the mouth of the Orinoco river on the
north coast of the South American contin-
emit while making his third voyage west
ward from Spain in quest of a more direct
route to India, Cathayand Japan.
These last named countries had been
visited in the thirteenth century
by the noble and illustrious Vene-
tian voyager, Marco Polo, of which he, on
his return to his native city, published to
the then known world so interesting an
account and concerning which Colonel
Yule of the Royal British) Bengal army
has 80 also enlightened us in letters of his
eastern travels, the vast extent of these coun-
cultural and mineral production, and the
unsurpassed magnifcence of the Tartar
dynasty and of the great kahns who, at
that period, held autocratic rule of Asia.
The Baron de Humboldt tells us that the
first settlement of Spaniards on the main
land was at place called Amaraca- parma.
On map showing the discoveries and
explorations of Columbus on the coast of
Venezuela, from the Dragons Mouth Zone
of the approaches to the Bay of Para, sit
uated between the island of Trinidad, West
Indies, and the coast of South America and
the Orinoco river and westwar6 appears
the coast name Maraca-panna, or properly
Amaraca-panna.
This name Amarca was adopted by the
Spaniards for the new country and SO laid
down in their maps and publications of
that date. These maps gave publicity con-
corning this native name, and by which
later the whole western continent became
known to Europeans by the national name
| of its chief nation.
The name Amarca is in this form, viz
| Am area; the root, ar, is in three forms
ar, primary: er, secondary, and or, terti-
ary-so that the names Am-ar-ca and
America are identical.
The sacred book of the Peruvians shows
| that Amarca or America was really the ma
tional name of their country. This has
been proved by travellers and chart makers
who show that the early South Americans
adopted the system of adding prefxes to
the national name in designating thei1
most important cities, such as Cundin-
Amarca, Cay-Amarca, Pult-Amarca, Yam.
Amarca, Ang-Amarca and Vin-Amarca
while their capital was called Amarca. Tt
give by way of illustration a parallel, We
will say North Haven, East Haven, West
Haven, Fair Haven and New Haven
From this time, A. D. 1900, the name
|
every year new expeditions for explora
ton and trade were fitted out, as histor,
abundantly proves, viz: Those of Nino anc
Pinzon, both companions of Columbus Lep
1901, Guerra 1902, etc., etc.
The Capitol Amarca was burned by tn
Spaniard Alvarado in 1924.
Having shown the name America t.
have been of native origin, it NATURAL.
follows that explanation should b
sought IS to why the great error which
has taken centuries to explain, was mad
by early historians and thrown broadcas
to the world; why the nickname (Amerigc
of Albericus Vesputius, Florentine an
naval astronomer, should have been thu
misapplied. Vespucci was not even a ma,
liner. He was man of business, who i
May, 1899 and the year following the CT
lumbar discovery of the continent accom-
panied the Ojeda expedition as a passenger
with the object in view to collect material
for his new books and charts, which late
found market and sale in the countries
Europe. AS there were several Vespucc
at this date following the sam
calling, he was distinguished fro1
= tions on account of his voyag
by the cognomen of the new country
which he wrote, which was then known t
the world by it's native name Amarca
1t was the custom at that period to Civ
men who had accomplished remarkabl
deeds an additional cognomen, just as
, our day General Gordan, who served
: China, was named 'fChinese" Gorda1
General Jackson, ssStonewall'' jackson
a DR.. Livingstone, "African" Livingstone
Stanley, Stanley "Africanus" and Scipi,
Vesputius had voyaged to the new foun
. | land nf No111po h11Q vyhoco "a
i no one disputed at that period, and
l. which Columbus had made charts, We
pucci was given, we are led to suppos
: "Amerigo" Vespuoci. A printing pre-
had been given by the duke of Lorrine
the monastery of St. Dee, where tt
learned monk Waltze Muller was the pri1
Z cipal, and the publications of Vespucci r.
] garding the discovery of the new countr,
was at that time known, and these monk
wished to show their friends the wonder
of printing, they issued on April &c, 1907
as their their first work little boo
-four pages) and with it was the Vespu
CTS map of the then supposed world.
Lambert says, that in tracing the ne
found land, they were guided by the pul
lished letters of Vesputius, and in IL
preface of the work it was suggested tn
the western continent be named Amerig
! dIUcl CIO l1Ieu N1oA1 tASJ duOou Aatu vi
covered it. They did not know that We
putius himself had taken the name Amer
!, go 0talian) from Amarca, the native nan
of the country which he had visited, al
!. of which he had written.
About 1919 Waltze Miller finding Of
his mistake, issued a new map of the ne
discoveries, and without mentioning h
error, wrote on it, t'This land with the a,
jacent isles, was found by Columbus, 6
= officer in command for the King of Ca
tile" Hereafter, however, all the ne
I maps seemed to have adopted the natl,
name of the country, and the name W,
!. generally adopted by the world and no OF
]. seems to have corrected the wrong impre
= sion that had gone out broadcast by Il
medium of this at the time seemingly il
significant pamphlet. (See note)
IS will not rehearse the mythical voyag
of the Mortimer to Vineland (New En-
landD centuries before, nor Il
! voyages of Columbus, in 1892 to 100
when he discovered and explor'
the north and west shores and the islam
j of the caribbean Sea, and unknown
himself, discovered a continent, supposil
it on account Of error, regarding the tn,
unknown circumference of the world to
contiguous to Dathay, on the eastern sho
of Asia Nor will I enlarge at length
the history of the voyages of Columb
and his contemporaries, with which all a
familiar, but will only make brief menti,
IF fboco x,ioo &ba;r ovr1o;4,