The Ruminations of Silas DeShane

To continue my journal entry:

It seems that due to my unfortunate trip the science of Mechanology marches on. It appears that the hypothesis on the potential difference in the flow of time has been proven with my unintended trip to your universe. When I left it was 1883, yet here in your universe it is 2024.

To answer the question of the city name differences, and with help from Mr Dickinson, we have determined that in both of our worlds the city was called St Anthony due to the fact that the US Army first built a logging and grist mill at the falls of St Anthony. A bit of time later your world's city renamed itself as Minneapolis.

The next detail baffles me the most. How in the name of heaven did your western hemisphere's continents come to be called America? In both of our worlds Amerigo Vespucci was the cartographer who's name was used to categorize the new world.

However, even in your world the America name is an anomaly. For example, is it the Henry River, Henry Bay, or the City of Lucius? All of these places have been defined by the last name of the explorer or legislation of the territory. Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Cincinnati Ohio.

From what I can see nearly all locations named after a person in your world uses the last name. So, why was Amerigo used instead of Vespucci? Of that question I cannot answer.

Godspeed, Silas