[...] Columbia, (which is the Lilliputian Name for the Country that answers our America,) [...]
The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, London: printed by Edward Cave, vol. 8, 1738, (June, "Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia,") p. 285.
So far as I have been able to find out, this Lilliputian name for the country answering to English America was the first appearance of "Columbia" anywhere.
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, series 2, vol. 2, 1885-1886, (December, 1885, "The Name 'Columbia',") p. 163.
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