Note 610 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

See instances cited by Prof. J. D. Butler, Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, vol. ii. (1873, 1874). There was an attempt made in 1845, by some within the New York Historical Society, to render tardy justice to the memory of Columbus by taking his name, in the form of Columbia, as a national designation of the United States; but it necessarily failed (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., ii. 315). “Allegania” was an alternative suggestion made at the same time.