A Plan of Fort Augustus with the old barracks and situation 1734.
cartographic

1734.
This sheet shows the work being done at Fort Augustus in 1734. It also shows some of the country around the fort, including Loch  Ness and the River Tarff, and names a harbour as one of the fort's features. It is not signed. A copy of this plan, done by John Hewitt, in the Tower of London Drawing Room, in May 1797, is at shelfmark MS.16467.Z.02/61b.
In top right hand corner: library shelfmark written in ink.
In top left hand corner: handwritten in box, title and year, with "Explanation", a list of code letters and the names of the features to which they refer on the map, and the text "Fort Augustus Founded 8th of September 1729, the main body of the Fortess with most of the Buildings is brought up to the height of the Watertabling".
In bottom left hand corner: handwritten in box, scale statement "Scale for Plan", with 127 mm. scale bar graded [0]-50-[0]-100-400 Feet, and "Scale for the Profile", with diagonal scale, graded [0]-5-[0]-10-200 Feet.
At right hand side: "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red.
Has watermarks.
Tabraham, Chris. Fortess Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995,
National Library of Scotland. War Office Inventory,
Shows Fort Augustus, Invernesshire.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Maps, Military