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Carson City (Oregon) commemorates the name of Kit Carson, the Rocky Mountain trapper and guide, who died in 1871.

Charlestown (Carolina), founded in 1670, and named after Charles II.

Connecticut (Indian), so called from the chief river.

Delaware, in Pennsylvania, so named from lord De la Ware, who died in the bay (1703).

Florida, discovered by the Spaniards on Palm Sunday, and thence called [Pasqua] Florida.

Georgia, named in honour of George II., in whose reign the first settlement there was made.

Harrisburg (Pennsylvania), named from Mr. Harris, by whom it was first settled in 1733, under a grant from the Penn family.

Indiana, so named from the number of Indians which dwelt there (1801).

Louisiana, so named by M. de la Sale (1682), in honour of Louis XIV. of France.

Maine, so called (1638) from the French province of the same name.

Maryland, so named by lord Baltimore (1632), in compliment to Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I. of England.

Massachusetts (Indian) means “Blue Hills.”

Nevada, so called from the Sierra Nevada mountainchain.

New Hampshire, previously called Laconia. It received its present name from J. Mason, governor of Hampshire, to whom it was conceded in 1629.

New Jersey, so called in honour of sir G. Carteret, who had defended Jersey against the parliamentary forces in 1664.

New York, previously called New Amsterdam. It received its present name (1664) in compliment to James duke of York (afterwards James II.).

Pennsylvania (“the Penn Forest”), so called from William Penn, who, in 1681, gave to the state its constitution.

Rhode Island, so called, in 1644, in reference to the island of Rhodes. It is the smallest of the 13 original States of North America, and was colonized by the Pilgrim Fathers.

Texas (i.e. “the place of pro-tection”), so called in 1817, because general Lallemant gave there “protection” to a colony of French refugees.

Vermont (i.e. “Verts Monts”), so called from the Green Mountains, which traverse the state.

Virginia, so called (1584) by sir Walter Raleigh, in compliment to Elizabeth, “the virgin queen.”

Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan (“a lake”), Minnesota (“laughing waters”), Mississippi (“sea of waters”), Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin, are names of rivers.

America. Nicknames of the United States’ inhabitants: Alabama, lizards; Arkansas, tooth-picks; California, gold-hunters; Colorado, rovers; Connecticut, wooden nutmegs; Delaware, musk-rats; Florida, fly-up-the- creeks; Georgia, ouzzards; Illinois, suckers; Indiana, hoosiers; Iowa, hawk-eyes; Kansas, jay-hawkers; Kentucky, corn-crackers; Louisiana, creoles; Maine, foxes; Maryland, craw-thumpers; Michigan, wolverines;