VIRGINIA
AND
MARYLAND
As it is Planted and
Inhabited this present
Year 1670 Surveyed and
Exactly Drawne by the
Only Labour and Endeavor
of
Augustin Herrman
Bohemiensis
Surmounting the inscription plate is a highly ornamental shield in the center of which is a heart from which springs a trifoliate plant and beneath crossed arrows. On the top of the shield is a Neptune head.[1] On either side resting obliquely on the top of the inscription plate are clusters of leaves and fruit, classic in design, but probably emblematical of the fertility of the soil of the two colonies.
On the left of the inscription is a mariner’s compass; on the right a mason’s compass. At the points are two scales, the upper line showing a scale of eight English leagues and the line below designating a scale of twenty-five English miles. In the northeast section of the map is an admirable engraving of Herrman, doubtless drawn by himself. He is represented as having a large, well-formed head, inclined to the oval, handsome and regular features, with sharp though sympathetic eyes. A small moustache together with a small growth of hair directly below his lower lip and his long flowing hair, apparently natural, inclined to curl over his shoulders, give him the characteristic Stuartesque and cavalier appearance of the late seventeenth century. This bust engraving of Herrman is set in an oval frame, bearing his name, Augustine Herrman Bo-
- ↑ We may suppose that Herrman was familiar with classical mythology.
