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Volume contents
- 1 - Ardnamurchan , Page 1 (start)
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- 127 - Ardnamurchan , Title page
- 128 - Ardnamurchan , Index
Continued entries/extra info
Roshven, Fortwilliam
13 Oct 1880
There is a considerable Hill (2576 ft.) on my property here in Lat 56 [degrees] 50 [minutes] N: Long. 5[degrees] 41 [minutes] 30 [seconds] W approximately) the name of which the natives pronounce Roshven. In the best old county map (Thomson's I believe, published by Keith Johnston) it is marked Roshvein and it is so spelt in the titles to my property. In the Admiralty Chart (2496) it is spelt Rosbheinn. I always spell it myself Roshven to prevent 99 percent of Her Majesty's subjects calling it Roshvain; but I have no serious objection to any of the above mentioned spellings. I [illegible, ? pentuce]
However to think that the nomenclature Am Fros-bheinn which I find in the Six Inch Ordnance Map (Sheet 135, I think) is really too eccentric. I have reason to suppose that this was taken from the etymological theory of a former, not very literary, minister at Arisaig, who fancied he knew Gaelic (I beg pardon, I suppose the Ordnance office will only recognise it as Gaidhealig).
My object in writing is to [express?] a hope that in the Ordnance Map in the one inch scale, which is not yet published, the name of my hill will appear in some rational spelling.
I am
Your obt. [obedient] servant
Hugh Blackburn
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow, formerly Fellow of Trin [Trinity] Coll [College] Cambridge
addressed to Col. J. Bayley
Ordnance office
Southampton
Transcriber's notes
[Hand-written notes] Fwarded [forwarded] to Colonel Cooke 25 Octr. [October] 1880 [signed] I. Bayley D.G.R.E.
F K 876
Ordnance Survey - Inverness county, OS Name Books - Inverness county (Mainland) - Volume 10 - Parish of Ardnamurchan, OS1/17/10
This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Ardnamurchan.
Ordnance Survey - Inverness county
Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Inverness, which is in the north of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.