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FORT-AUGUSTUS, village on Caledonian Canal, at south-western extremity of Loch Ness, 33J miles south-west of Inverness. It has a post office, with money order department, designated of Inverness-shire, Established, Free, and Roman Catholic churches, and a public school. A fort, in front of it, was erected in 1734, suffered capture by the rebels in 1745, became head-quarters of the Duke of Cumberland after the battle of Culloden, and was theft rebuilt and strengthened ; had a quadrangular construction, bastioned at the angles, and protected by ditch, covered way, and glacis ; contained barracks with capacity for 300 soldiers ; came in later years to be used as a military sanatorium ; was eventually purchased by Lord Lovat, and given by him in 1876 to Benedictine monks ; and has now, within its old bastions, a grand suite of Roman Catholic edifices, comprising college, monastery, hospitium, and church, erected at a cost of about 43,000, and opened with great ceremony in August 1880. Pop. 470.