[Sections of Fort Augustus, 1747] : No.1, No.2, No.3, No.4 and No.5 /
Skinner, William,1700-1780.
cartographic

[1747]
This sheet of sections accompanies the plan at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/66a (copies at shelfmarks MS.1647.Z.02/66b and MS.1647.Z.02/66c.) They show William Skinner's repairs and additions to Fort Augustus, as a consequence of its partial destruction by the army of Charles Edward Stuart, just before Culloden, in 1746, and follow Skinner's initial plan at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/65a, (copies at shelfmarks MS.1647.Z.02/65b and MS.1647.Z.02/65c). There is a copy of these sections at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/70a.
At bottom of sheet: scale statement "Scale 40 Feet to an Inch, for the Profile No.5",  with 133.35 mm. scale bar graded 10-[5]-0-10-200 Feet, and written above, in ink, "Line of Fire at three hundred and twenty yards distance - The Hill of the Old Barracks".
At left hand side of Section No.3: scale statement "Scale 20 Feet to an Inch, for the Profiles No.1,2,3,4", with 139.7 mm. scale bar graded 10-[5]-0-10-100 Feet.
In bottom left hand corner: written in ink "No.22".
In bottom right hand corner: written in ink "Bo. 5. Fo. 60".
In top right hand corner: library shelfmark written in pencil.
Has watermarks.
Board of Ordnance. Register of Plans 1700-1800,
Shows Fort Augustus, Invernesshire.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Maps, Military