Page:Augustine Herrman, beginner of the Virginia tobacco trade, merchant of New Amsterdam and first lord of Bohemia manor in Maryland (1941).djvu/93

hemian.^[1] To the right of the portrait is a representation of an Indian canoe, paddled by seven men, but apparently not Indians, as can be noted by their European hats. Beneath is the inscription,

 

“An Indian canoe made out of a Tree with their Battles or Oares with Manner of Rowing over the Rivers.”

 

Directly beneath is the name of the engraver, W. Faithorne, Sculp. In the extreme southeast section of the map is the imprint:

 

“Published by Authority of his Ma.ties Royall Licence and particuler Priviledge to Aug. Herman^[2] and Thomas Withinbrook his Assignce for fourteen yeares from the year of our lord 1673.”

 

In the northwest section is the Coat at Arms of the Lords Baltimore, in the west central section of the map is the Great Seal of England with the familiar “Dieu et mon Droit”. Far toward the northwest, beyond the habitations, are depicted the mountains. To show how little informed were the most educated Englishmen of Virginia and Maryland of the seventeenth century of the vast size of the American continent, we quote the following description of these mountains that Herrman inserted at the top of the map:

 

“These Mighty high and great Mountains trenching N.E. and S.W. and W.S.W. supposed to be the very middle range of Northern America and the only Natural cause of the fierceness and extreme Stormy cold winds that come N.W. from thence all over the Continent and makes frost. And as Indians report from the other side westwards doe the Rivers take their origen all issuing out into the West Sea especially first discovered a very

 

1. The name on the portrait is spelled “Augustine”; the one on the inscription plate, “Augustin”, showing vagrancies of 17th century spelling.
2. The vagrancies in the spelling of proper names during the 17th century is truly astonishing. On the map Herrman spells both his first name and last name differently.