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 www.maps.google.co.uk/maps for modern maps.

 www.landmap.ac.uk/gallery/imagepages/pages/landmap_dem_250m_scotland_jpg.htm. A relief map of Scotland.

 www.rcahms.gov.uk. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland’s site (incorporating the National Monuments Record of Scotland), with maps and other details of ancient monuments and old buildings.

of places (see www.nls.uk/pont/generalnew.html). Of the island of Raasay, for example, Pont wrote:

‘Raasa ane Ile neer the Skye upon 4 myle long perteyning to Mac-Gillichallum Rasa of the hous of Lewis of old, now holds this Ile of the Earle Seafort, it hath ane paroch kirk Kilmaluag, one castell called Breokill. hard by is Rona, a smal Ile, pertyning to that gentleman also.’

You can study the subject of old maps in A Guide to the Early Maps of Scotland to 1850 (Scottish Royal Geographical Society, 1973).

The Pont maps were saved from almost certain oblivion by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Fife (c.1590s-1657), Lord Lyon King of Arms, whose third wife Margaret Arnot of Ferny was a distant cousin of mine. He assembled an important collection of old manuscripts on Scottish history, which is now in the NLS.

The Pont map showing Lochs Awe and Fyne, Co. Argyll.