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claim kindred with the words of many other countries. But 

 independent of this, it is extended throughout our immense 

 colonies and possessions ; as well as in various other parts of 

 the world, which English navigators discovered and named. 



In Africa, English names prevail at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 in some of the Islands, along certain points of the west coast, 

 and in the more extensive settlements, American as well as 

 British. In Asia, numerous points all over the Indian con- 

 tinent have assumed English names ; and in the colonial 

 settlements of Australasia, thousands of places are named like 

 our own. In South America, we find only a few English 

 names, towards the extreme south, and in British Guiana. In 

 North America, from the Polar regions to the Gulf of Mexico, 

 the terms are Anglo Saxon ; a large proportion of those which 

 still remain from other languages, giving place to English. 

 Throughout the whole extent of the Pacific, and beyond the 

 Arctic and Antarctic circles, the coasts have been surveyed, the 

 seas traversed and the lands explored by British enterprise; 

 u^til one is tempted to forget his distance from home in read- 

 ing the names of their localities. 



The great principles of " Pre-existing Names'' and "Personal 

 Names" already noticed, receive an interesting confirmation 

 in the researches of our own countrymen. Not only is almost 

 every spot of interest within the circuit of our own seas 

 reproduced elsewhere, but there is hardly a celebrated name 

 in any department of literature or science, that is not some- 

 where apparent on our maps. This is an allowable species of 

 "hero worship," and deserves a little illustration.* 



1, Royal Personages. Such names as Alexandr-\&, Coti- 

 stantin-o^h, Adrian-o^le, Peters-huvg, Materin-oshY, Caroline 

 Islands, ik?M>-iana, Bayazidy Timor , and Ahmed-^^i^y belong to 

 other countries ; and in general explain themselves. But in 



♦ Collected from various Histories, Books of Travels, and Trerttises on Maritime 

 and Inlnnd Discovery. 



