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strated that a discovery sliould not be credited to a sea captain whose 

 voyage harmonizes with the year but not with the month to which it is 

 accredited. 



It may be profitable and useful in inv^estigations relating to this sub- 

 ject to annex here an alphabetical list of the saintly names most fre- 

 quently in use. 



Names. 



Date. 



Alexius 



All Saints 



Ambrosius 



Andreas 



Anna 



Annnnciatio Mariic 



Antoiiius 



Apimlonia 



Ascensio Domini 



Ascensio Mariir^ 



Assumptio St. Joliannis 



Assumptio Mariaj 



Augustin 



Balthazar 



Barbara 



Bartolom«iis 



Beata 



Benedictns 



Bernhard 



Blasius 



Bonaventura 



Bo7iifacius 



Catlierina 



Cliristopli Cristoval 



Circunuisio Domini 



Clara 



Conceptio Maria- 



Crucis 



Dionysius 



Dominica-Sunday 



Dominicus 



Eleven Thousand Virgins.. 



Elias 



Epiphany (Three Kings' 

 Day). 



Ferdinand 



Franciscn.s 



Gallus 



George 



Germanus 



Gregorius 



Holy Three Kings 



Helena 



July 17. 

 November 1. 

 April 4. 

 November 30. 

 July 26. 

 March 25. 

 January 7. 

 February 9. 

 Himmelfahrt. 

 August 15. 

 December 27. 

 August 15. 

 August 28. 

 January 4. 

 December 4. 

 August 24. 

 December 22. 

 March 21. 

 lilay 20. 

 February 3. 

 July 14. 

 June 5. 

 November 25. 

 December 18. 

 January 1. 

 August 12. 

 December 8. 

 September 14. 

 Octol)er 9. 



August 5. 

 October 21. 

 July 20. 

 January 6. 



January 19. 

 October 4. 

 October 16. 

 April 23. 

 July 31. 

 March 12. 

 January 6. 

 August 18. 



Hyacmthus. 



Hieronynius 



Jacobus. 



Jaiuiarius. 



Jacinto 



Johannes Baptista. 



Julian 



Exaltatis 



Laurentius 



Lazarus. 



Lucas . 



Lucia. 



Louis 



Lotiisa 



Magdaleua 



Margaret 



Maria 



Martha 



Martin 



Martyrs . 



ISIatthew 



Matthias (in leap year, Feb- 

 ruary 25). 



Michael 



Nativitas Christi (Navidad 

 Natal). 



Nicolas 



Omnium Sanctorum 



Pantaleon 



Paulus 



Peter-Paul 



Petrus 



Philippus and Jacobus 



Raphael 



Rochus 



Romanus 



Sebastian 



Severniuus 



Stephanus 



Thomas 



Trinitas (Trinidad) 



Triumfo de la Cruz 



Vincentius 



Date. 



September 20. 

 July 25. 

 September 19. 

 September 11. 

 July 24. 

 February 27, 28. 

 September 14. 

 August 10. 

 December 17. 

 October 18. 

 December 13. 

 August 25. 

 March 2. 

 July 22. 

 July 13. 

 September 8. 

 July 29. 

 November 11. 

 June 22. 

 September 21. 

 February 24. 



September 29. 

 December 25. 



December 6. 

 November 1. 

 July 27. 

 January 25. 

 June 29. 

 August 1. 

 May 1. 

 October 24. 

 August 16. 

 August 9. 

 January 20. 

 Aug. 26-Oct. 23. 

 December 26. 

 December 21. 

 Sunday. 

 July 16. 

 January 22. 



Besides these saintly names, which for the most part fall upon their 

 feast days, though occasionally on a proximate date, the nomenclature 

 of the old maps consists only of characteristic symbols of the coasts 

 visited and first taken possession of. The usual names are as follows: 



