MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 49

Herman¹ and first published in 1670. Herman was a remarkable
character. Born at Prague, he was educated as an engineer, and
came from Holland to New Amsterdam with the Dutch. Peter
Stuyvesant sent him south to help settle a boundary dispute, and he
arrived in Maryland in 1660. He was so pleased with this country
that he determined to remain here, and proposed to Lord Baltimore
to make for him a new map of his domains in return for a large tract
of land at the head of the bay in Cecil county. This offer was
accepted, and Herman named his estate Bohemia Manor, in honor of
his birthplace. Herman's map was engraved by Faithorne and pub-
lished in London in four folio sheets. Its title is " Virginia and Mary-
land as it is planted and inhabited this present year 1670; surveyed
and exactly drawne by Augustine Herman, Bohemiensis. " It con-
tains a fine portrait of Herman. Its scale is 12 English miles to the
inch. It names eight Maryland counties as well as the rivers " Sass-
quahana, " "Bush, " "Gunpowder, " " Patapsko, " " Seavorn, " " Pa-
tuxen, " and " Patowmeck. " The idea then prevalent that the Appa-
lachians formed the central ridge of the American continent finds
expression on Herman's map as follows:

" These mightly high and great Mountaines trenching N. E. and S. W. and
W. S. W. is supposed to be the very middle Ridg of Northern America and the
only naturall cause of the fiercenes and extreame stormy cold winds that
comes N. W. from thence all over this Continent and makes frost. And as
Indians report from the other side westward doe the Rivers take their origi-
nall issuing out into the west sea, especially first discovered a very great
River called the Black Mincquaas Eiver out of which above the Susquehana
Fort....

" Certain it is that as the Spaniard is possessed of great Store of Min-
eralls at the other side of these mountaines the same Treasures they may in
process of time afford also to us here on this side when occupyed which
is Recomended to Posterity to Remember."

¹ Further information regarding Herman may be found in the N. Y.
Geneal. and Biog. Record, vol. ix, 1878, p. 52; N. Y. Historical Collections,
vol. xviii; "Ancient Families of Bohemia Manor," by C. P. Mallery, Del.
Hist. Soc., 1888; "A Maryland Manor," by J. G. Wilson, Md. Hist. Soc.
(Fund Publication, 30), 1890. The Maryland Historical Society also pos-
sesses the MS. journal of Herman on the " First Foundation and Seating
of Bohemia Manor," 1660.

This description of Herman and the references are taken from Williams'
" Maps of the Territory included within the State of Maryland," etc.