George Taylor’s Road BookCaptain George Taylor’s ‘Sketches of the roads in Scotland: with notes historical, descriptive &ca’, MS Add. 7712, is displayed in the cases titled ‘Aiding the traveller’. Taylor, an officer in the Duke of Cumberland’s regiment of foot, dated his manuscript road book 1785, and may have produced it as a gift to a member of the Campbell clan, possibly the fifth Duke of Argyll. 
The road past Ben Nevis to Fort William. MS Add. 7712, map 59 
Dumbarton and Loch Lomond. MS Add. 7712, map 83
The coast between Fraserburgh and Banff. MS Add. 7712, map 100 
Fochabers to Aviemore. MS Add. 7712, map 102 |
