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Atlas, 1640-50, i. e., Virginiae partis australis, et Floridse partis 

 orientalis, interjacentiumjz regionum Nova Descriptio," " Nova 

 Belgica et Anglica Nova," and also John Smith's map. 



1670. 



We have seen the influence on the cartography of Virginia 

 of John With's map of 1585 and John Smith's map of 1608. 



I come now to the one made by Augustine Herman in 1670 

 and engraved in 1673, which, with the two maps just mentioned, 

 were copied by all map-makers up to Fry and Jefferson's map 

 of 1 75 1. Herman's map was little known in this country until 

 1873, when a reduced facsimile was made from the original 

 copy in the British Museum and published in the " Maps to 

 accompany the report of the commissioners on the boundary 

 line between Virginia and Maryland. Richmond, 1873." 



The influence of this map on the cartography of Virginia can 

 be traced in several maps which I will mention hereafter. 



The following notice of Herman is taken from a note on page 

 230 of " Memoirs of the Long Island Historical Society," vol. i, 

 1867: 



" Augustine Hermans, or Heermans, called also Harman, was 

 a Bohemian by birth, but came from Holland to New Amster- 

 dam in or before 1647, in which year he was appointed by the 

 director and council of New Netherland, one of the Nine Men, 

 a body of citizens selected to assist the government by their 

 counsel and advice. He came over to this country as a clerk 

 to John and Charles Gabry of Amsterdam. He was sent, in 

 company with Resolved Waldron, by the Dutch government, 

 to the Governor of Maryland, to confer in relation to the claim 

 of title to the proprietor of Maryland to the South river. 

 This no doubt led to his subsequent settlement on Bohemia 

 river, so named by him, in that province. He seems to have 

 been a surveyor and draughtsman. In addition to the map of 

 Maryland, stated by our journal to have been made by him, 

 which seems to have been the consideration for the grant of 

 Bohemia manor, he made a sketch of the city of New Amster- 

 dam, which was engraved on Nicolas Jan Visscher's map Novi 

 Belgii Novaeque Angliae nee non partis Virginiae, published in 

 1650-6, and also on reduced scale from Visscher's map on the 



