_Higginson_, 37-38; _Eggleston_, 7-8.] [Sidenote: The New World named America.] 8.

The Naming of America .-- Many other explorers also visited the new-found lands.

Among these was an Italian named Americus Vespucius.
Precisely where he went is not clear.

But it is clear that he wrote accounts of his voyages, which were printed and read by many persons.

In these accounts he said that what we call South America was not a part of Asia.