America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.
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Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Oxford History of the American People. Oxford University Press, 1965, ch. 2.
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