A Plan of Fort Augustus with the adjacent lands 1750 [copy] /
Daubant, Abraham,active 1750-1759.
cartographic

1750.
This is a plan of the fort at Fort Augustus, with the surrounding countryside, and has been attributed to Abraham Daubant. As well as the details of the fort, it shows the town, other settlements, a mill, cultivated fields and orchards, the roads leading to Glen Morrison, Fort William and Inverness, trees, peat areas and boggy ground, "Land overflowed when there are great Rains", two fords and a ferry on the River Oich, a wooden bridge and a ford on the River Tarff, and the "Boundary of the Kings Land". It also indicates a "Pier for the Galley", which was used by the fort personnel. There is a contemporary copy of this, signed by Daubant, at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/67b, and a copy done in 1808, by William Rogerson, at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/67c.
At bottom of sheet: in box, title and date, "Explanation", with list of code letters, and names of features on plan to which they refer, and scale statement "Scale 200 Feet to an Inch ", with 139.7 mm. scale bar, graded [0]-50-[0]-100-1000
To right of title box: "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red, and "B5 F59" written in ink.
To left of title box: "(30)" written in ink.
In top right hand corner: library shelfmark written in ink.
Has watermarks.
National Library of Scotland. War Office Inventory,
Marshall, Douglas W., "Military Maps of the Eighteenth Century and the Tower of London Drawing Room", Imago Mundi,
Shows Fort Augustus, Invernesshire, with Loch Ness and the rivers Tarff and Oich.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Maps, Military