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 money (equivalent to about five thousand dollars in presentday currency; or possibly somewhat more since the devaluation of the gold dollar). Quite unfortunately Herrman left no written record of his travels during this period. Considering the vast amount of wild and only half-explored territory that he had to traverse, we can lament the fact that he did not keep some kind of diary, which today would be of incalculable worth, telling us so much about the people and conditions in the out-of-the-way places in Maryland and Virginia. The work was finished in 1670 by Herrman’s “only labour and endeavor”, as he himself states.

Probably the next three years were taken up with the placing together of all the many sketches and charts; and the map as we know it now plotted. The original drawing was sent to England in 1673 and engraved by an artist by the name of William Faithhorne. According to Thomas Čapek, William Faithhorne in 1654 was living in the same house near Temple Bar, London with Wenceslaus Hollar, the eminent Bohemian engraver and etcher. The Herrman map is said to be the only extant work of Faithhorne. The map was dedicated to King Charles II. The following advertisement appears in the London Gazette for 1674, No. 873: