The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-07
WHERE AMERICA
 FIRST GOT NAME Famous Vespucius Was Not Responsible NAME IS INDIGRUOUS Said That Vespucius Was Called By Nickname" Because
 He Had Been To This
 Country
rom the New York World.

From the New York World
 Since the publication of the book IT which the name America" was first applied to this continent, the Cosmo- graphiae Introductio, by Waldseemuel- Ter at St. Die, France. in 1507 the 404th anniversary of which publication has just been celebrated, every history of America has stated that the continent was named for "Amerigo" Vespucel, oftener called by the Latin equivalent Americus Vespucius.
 The para graph in Waldseemueller's book in which the name had its histori- cal inception is as follows:
 There is fourth part of the world which Amerigo Vespucci has discovered and which for this reason we should call America; that is to say, the land Of Amerigo."
 The derivation given by Waldsee- mueller has been challenged by at least one historian of international reputa tion. Dr. Ricardo Palma of Peru. whc suggests that America is exclusively an American word, and that Vespucc country in the same way, for instance as "Deadwood" Dick or Arizona" Pete gets his pseudonym.
 In his Traditions of Peru" Dr Palma discusses the origin of the name These are his deductions
 That America is a place-name in Nicaragua and designates a chain of mountains in the province of Chantoles where Vespucc landed.
 That the termination 'ic,' 'ique, 'ico." is encountered frequently in the tongues and dialects indigenous to Cen tral America, appearing to signify large" high" prominent" and is applied to mountain peaks in which there are no volcanoes.
 That Vespucci's given name was Al berico Latin, Albericus).
 That in no part of Europe was America" given name applied to either man or woman.
 That only crowned heads baptized new countries with their given names as, for instance, Georgia, Louisiana Carolina the Philippines. while discov- erers gave them their surnames, as in the cases of the Straits of Magellan Vancouver's Island and VanDieman's Land.
 That Columbus himself has not given the name Christofonia or Christofa but Colum bia or Colon, to the New World.
 That according to the historian the Viscount de Santarem, Vespucci visited the New World for the first time abou' the end of 1499 in the expedition ol Cabral; that the description he wrote of the regions was published by Waldsee- mueller and that it was Waldseemueller who who made the unjustifable mis- take" of putting the name of the de- scriber above that of the discoverer.
 Tn conclusion,' says Dr. Palma from it's origin, from the remarks ot Columbus on his fourth voyage, from it's pathological value and from oth q considerations briefly referred to. it can be deduced without great effort that the word America exclusively indigenous has nothing to do with the Captain Vespucci."
 Without indorsing these hypotheses 1t may be said that the two or three au- thentic autographs of Vespucci, one of which is spelled "Amerrigo," were all written subsequent to his discovery; that he was vain and would likely be pleased with his alleged nickname
 Dr. Palma might have made further deduction from the fact that the name Alberico is fairly common in Latin countries, and there is no evidence that the orthography is varied by writing it "Amerigo."