Humboldt's Letters. 393 



sso. 



VARNHAGEN TO HUMBOLDT. 



BERLIN, February 19&, 1858. 



You see, dear friend, that in spite of many little cavils 

 of Mr. d'Avezac, who has learned to quote from Malte- 

 Brun, your cousin does you much honor. 



But it is incomprehensible that Mr. d'Avezac knows 

 nothing at all of the map of Juan de la Cose, of 1500, 

 published by me in 1830, six years before the death of 

 Colon, and of a work in large quarto, under the title 

 "Geschichte des Seefahrers Hitter Martin Behaim, 

 von W. Ghillany and Alex. Humboldt, 1853," where the 

 origin of the name of " America" is discussed. 



A. HT. 



The ravages of a single night. The noble, youthful 

 old man, Yecchio della Montagna. 



Accompanying the book, " Considerations Geogra- 

 phiques sur PHistoire du Brezil, Examen critique d'une 

 nouvelle histoire generate du Brezil, par M. Francois 

 Adolphe de Yarnhagen. Rapport fait par M. d'Avezac, 

 Paris, 1857-58." 



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