A Plan of Fort Augustus in its present state with a designd fosse & cover'd way 1747 [copy] /
Skinner, William,1700-1780.
Miller, James,active 1773-1777.
cartographic

1776.
This is a copy of the plan at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/65a, which was done by William Skinner, in 1747. It has three sections. The top part contains a plan of Fort Augustus, showing the extent of the damage after the attack by the army of Charles Edward Stuart, in 1746, the middle part contains a profile of a proposed defensive fosse, and the bottom part contains the title and "Explanation. There is another copy, also done in the Tower of London Drawing Room, in 1776, by James Miller, at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/65c. The original assessment was followed by a plan at MS.1647.Z.02/66a, which has copies at MS.1647.Z.02/66b and MS.1647.Z.02/66c, and a sheet of sections at MS.1647.Z.02/70a, which has a copy at MS.1647.Z.02/70b, which detail his repairs.
At bottom of sheet: handwritten in ink in box, title, "Explanation", with list of code letters and the features on the sheet to which they refer.
At bottom of part containing plan: scale statement "A Scale for the Plan. 40 Feet to An Inch", with 190.5 mm. scale bar, graded [0]-[5]-10-20-30-40-50-60-70-80-90-100-300.
In middle of part containing plan: "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red.
At bottom of part containing profile: scale statement "A Scale for the Profil 10 Feet to An Inch", with 203.2 mm. scale bar, graded [0]-[5]-10-20-80.
In top left hand corner: library shelfmark written in ink.
In bottom left hand corner: "21)" and "James Miller" written in ink, with "begun & finished in 8 Days March the 27th 1776 No. 1" written in pencil.
In bottom right hand corner: written in ink "B5F5", with possibly "9" torn off.
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.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Maps, Military