ED. STEANE JACKSON.

Saffron Walden.

_Martinique_ (Vol. v., p. 11.).--One of your correspondents from St.

Lucia asks why the Island of Martinique was so called. It is from the

circumstance of its having been discovered on _St. Martin's Day_, 1502,

by Christopher Columbus.

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