American Aborigines called Indians

"Northman" is informed, that on the discovery of America by Columbus, when he landed at Guanahani (now called Cat Island), he thought, in conformity with his theory of the spherical shape of the earth, that he had landed on one of the islands lying at the eastern extremity of India; and with this belief he gave the inhabitants the name of Indians. The following quotations will perhaps be interesting:— "America persæpe dicitur, sed improprie, Indiæ Occidentales, *les Indes Occidentales*, Gallis, *West Inde*, Belgis: Non tantum ab Hispanis, qui illam denominationem primi usurparunt, sed etiam a…