Note 116 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

[It is well known that in commemoration of the English discovery, Cabotia a has been urged as a name for North America; but if Sebastia, urged by William Doyle in his Acc. of the British Dominion beyond the Atlantic, 1770, had been adopted, we should have had a misapplication, quite mating the mishap which gave the name of America to the western hemisphere.—Ed.]