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march with 50 foote and 30 horsemen from the head of Ieames River, 

 ouer those hills and through the rich adiacent Vallyes beautified with 

 pro-ffitable rivers which necessarily must run into yt peacefull Indian 

 Sea " one might arrive in New Albion or California, In this map, 

 the region now occupied by Cecil county was so distorted that the 

 map was practically useless. 



Fiiteen years later, in 1666, George Alsop published a map which 

 embraced the environs of Chesapeake Bay from a point in Virginia 

 a little south of the Potomac river northward to what is now in part 

 Delaware and Pennsylvania. The map was issued in a small pamph- 

 let and was based on personal exploration throughout the region 

 represented. Although many of the details which were placed on 

 the map had been obtained by personal exploration, still Alsop was 

 doubtless familiar with the early Smith map and was guided not a 

 little by it. The map is on a. larger scale and shows more detail than 

 represented by Smith, yet it cannot be said to add much to the real 

 knowledge of the region, because of its diagrammatic character and 

 extremely distorted proportions. It is just such a map as a rover or 

 an untrained hunter, who had explored the region in a general way, 

 might produce. The Susquehanna river, here spelled Susquehan- 

 nock, is represented, also the " Elke " and " Sasafrax " rivers, as well 

 as another stream, not named, but which, from its position, is prob- 

 ably either Back or Bohemia Creek. The rolling country within 

 Cecil county is expressed by clusters of hills. Scattered about the 

 surface of Cecil county and the neighboring region are sketches 

 showing a male and a female indian, the former in the act of dis- 

 charging a flintlock musket; also a hog, a dog and a fox. These 

 illustrations were drawn to accompany the description and were prob- 

 ably placed on the face of the map to economize space. 



The map which Smith published in 1612 (?) was not excelled by 

 other explorers until 1670, when Augustin Herrman brought out a 

 map of the region extending from southern New Jersey to southern 

 Virginia. Herrman, it seems, offered to make a map of Lord Balti- 

 more's territory provided Lord Baltimore in return would grant him a 

 manor along Bohemia River; this proposition Lord Baltimore accepted 

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