"The Hercynian Forest was known by report to Eratosthenes and some other Greeks, under the name Orcynia. The width of this forest, as Caesar says (B. G. vi. 25), was nine days' journey to a man without any incumbrance. It commenced at the territory of the Helvetii [ Switzerland] … and following the straight course of the Dunube reached to the country of the Daci and the Anartes. Here it turned to the left in different directions from the river, and extended to the territory of many nations. No man of western Germany could affirm that he had reached the eastern termination of the forest even after a journey of six days, nor that he had heard where it did terminate. This is all that Caesar knew of this great forest. … The nine days' journey, which measures the width of the Hercynian forest, is the width from south to north; and if we assume this width to be estimated at the western end of the Hercynia, which part would be the best known, it would correspond to the Schwarzwald and Odenwald, which extend on the east side of the Rhine from the neighbourhood of Bâle nearly as far north as Frankfort on the Main. The eastern parts of the forest would extend on the north side of the Danube along the Rauhe Alp and the Boehmerwald and still farther east. Caesar mentions another German forest named Bacenis (B. G. vi. 10), but all that he could say of it is this: it was a forest of boundless extent, and it separated the Suevi and the Cherusci; from which we may conclude that it is represented by the Thüringerwald, Erzgebirge, Riesengebirge, and the mountain ranges farther east, which separate the basin of the Danube from the basins of the Oder and the Vistula." _G. Long, Decline of the Roman Republic, volume 4, chapter 2._ HERETOGA. See EALDORMAN. HEREWARD'S CAMP IN THE FENS. See ENGLAND: A. D. 1069-1071. HERIBANN. See SLAVERY, MEDIÆVAL: FRANCE. HERKIMER, General, and the Battle of Oriskany. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1777 (JULY-OCTOBER). HERMÆ AT ATHENS, Mutilation of the. See ATHENS: B. C. 415. {1644} HERMÆAN PROMONTORY. The ancient name of the north-eastern horn of the Gulf of Tunis, now called Cape Bon. It was the limit fixed by the old treaties between Carthage and Rome, beyond which Roman ships must not go. _R. B. Smith, Carthage and the Carthaginians, chapter 5._ HERMANDAD, The. See HOLY BROTHERHOOD. HERMANRIC, OR ERMANARIC, The empire of. See GOTHS: A. D. 350-375; and 376. HERMANSTADT, Battle of (1442). See TURKS: A. D. 1402-1451. (Or Schellenberg,) Battle of (1599). See BALKAN AND DANUBIAN STATES: 14TH-18TH CENTURIES (ROUMANIA, &c.). HERMINSAULE, The. See SAXONS: A.D. 772-804. HERMIONES, The. See GERMANY: As KNOWN TO TACITUS. HERMITS. See ANCHORITES. HERMONTHIS. See ON. HERMUNDURI, The.