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remains have been recently discovered by the Hemenway Expedition, 
is to be called The Plain of Tempe! Can no names be selected from 
the noble vocabulary of the Pueblos, or from the Spanish-American 
historian of three centuries ago, that we must once more throw away 
our character in this way. Let us see. The name of the Great 
Colorado River, into which the Salt River ultimately finds its way, 
was the Tison—a dignified name, capable of almost any application. 
The region of the Moquis was Tesayan. The region of the Puerco 
River of the East was Tiguex—a word of entirely classical 
form. The Rio Grande was the Cicuyé. Towns of the region 
were Acuco, Tutahuaco, Chia (modern Cia), (north of which was 
the Province of Quirix), and Braba, at the head of the Jemez River. 
All of these are available names, of euphonious and even classical 
form, appropriate to the country, and not copied from any other 
region. We commend them respectfully to the gentlemen in 
charge of the Hemenway Expedition. 
Cannot something be done to change the north, south, east and 
west places that we have in such numbers, and to prevent the crea- 
tion of any new ones? Why shall we disfigure our map with a 
North Dakota, for instance? Call it Mandania, or some other 
original name. The Canadians have preémpted Assiniboia—so we 
cannot use that. Let us have Tacoma for Washington Territory, 
as has been long proposed. When Montana is divided, name one 
of its parts Absaroka, after the Crow Indians—the best specimens 
of the aboriginal American on the continent. 
We recall two instances of changes of name in the East, with 
which we emphasize our remarks. New Jersey once had a flourish- 
ing town of Longacoming. The name was one of the few instances 
of successful composition of English words to be found in America. 
It was changed by some person of perverted sensibilities to Berlin, 
and is now so called! In eastern North Carolina is a pretty village 
once called by the euphonious Indian name of Nahunta. When 
we last visited the place it was called Frémont, spelled with an “6.” 
Comment is unnecessary. s 
