Maps

Pont 17 : Loch Lomond

  • This map is unusual because of the very dark but detailed shading applied to many of the loch shorelines. Much of the rest of this map is rather untidy, and Pont clearly abandoned his attempt to improve this sheet at some point.
  • Written at the head of Loch Lomond is a note in a faint secretary hand which reads:
  • the loch
    disboggeth sailablie [navigably] 2
    mylles [miles] up in the mouth of
    Fell
  • Another note (top right corner) says:
  • The Clan Farlan
    are named fro[m] o[ne]
    Parlan who wes
    as they say the so[n]e of
    a daucht[er] of the erle [Earl] of
    Lennox
  • The scale bar along the eastern margin and a few of the place names were apparently later additions by Robert Gordon.


  • Three other Pont maps include parts of this sheet: Pont 14, 16 and 32.
  • The following maps by Robert Gordon also include some of the area: 6, 8, 49, 50 and 51.
  • The printed map by Joan Blaeu titled Levinia is relevant in part.

Maps by Blaeu and Gordon can be accessed via
the National Library of Scotland's Digital Library.


Text derived in part from Jeffrey C. Stone's The Pont Manuscript Maps of Scotland, published by Map Collector Publications Ltd in 1989.