Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, attorney and counseller at law, office no. 5 Masonic Temple, Cincinnati

Historical Map of Newark New Jersey 1666-1916 Compiled for the 250th Celebration by Edward S. Rankin, C.E. August 1916 Revised, Corrected and Published for the Board of Eduction in the Public Schools January 1918

I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part [that is, the South American mainland], after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerigen, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women.

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