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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by U. S. Air Service 

 AN AIRPLANE VIEW OF NEW YORK'S SKYSCRAPERS AND BATTERY PARK 



Mason in 1629 and named by him for the 

 English county of Hampshire. 



RHODE ISLAND OWES ITS NAME TO A 

 DUTCH NAVIGATOR 



When the Dutch navigator Adrian 

 Block sailed into Xarragansett Bay, 

 about 1614, he encountered an island of 

 fiery aspect, due to the red clay in some 

 portions of its shores. He called it 

 Roode Eylandt (Red Island), and the 

 surrounding country received its name 

 from that of the island. The English 

 settlers, who, with Roger Williams at 

 their head, received a charter for this re- 

 gion from the English Crown in 1644. 

 Anglicized the name, making it Rhode 

 Island. There is a theory, also, that our 

 smallest State was named after the 

 Island of Rhodes, in the Mediterranean, 

 hut it is difficult to substantiate this 

 claim, as the two localities in no way re- 

 semble one another. 



The Empire State, Xew York, as is 

 Avell known, was originally called Xew 



Netherlands, while the city was known as 

 New Amsterdam. But when the colony 

 was taken over by the English, in 1664, 

 the names of both were changed to Xew 

 York, not, as might be supposed, after 

 the city of York, England, but in honor 

 of Charles IBs brother, the Duke of 

 York, afterward James II of England, 

 to whom the grant was made. 



The duke, in turn, transferred the 

 southern portion of his grant to Sir 

 George Carteret, who settled there and 

 named the country after the Channel Isle 

 of Jersey, which place he had bravely de- 

 fended against the Parliamentary forces 

 in the English civil war. 



PENNSYLVANIA IS THE ONLY STATE 

 BEARING ITS FOL'NDER'S NAME 



In the southern portion of New Jersey 

 and in Delaware the Swedes made their 

 only American settlement, which they 

 called New Sweden, but the colony was 

 short-lived and only a few town-names 



