FORT AUGUSTUS, village, Inverness-shire, Scotland. Pop. (1921) 665. It is delightfully situated at the south-western ex tremity of Loch Ness, about 3o m. S.W. of Inverness, on the rivers Oich and Tarff and the Caledonian Canal. A branch line connects with Spean Bridge on the L.N.E.R. via Invergarry. The fort, then called Kilchumin, was built in 1716 to check the High landers, and was enlarged in 173o by General Wade. It was cap tured by the Jacobites in 1745, but reoccupied after Culloden, and named after William Augustus, duke of Cumberland. The fort was bought by the I 2th Lord Lovat, whose son presented it in 1876 to the English order of Benedictines. The site is now occupied by St. Benedict's Abbey and school for the higher edu cation of the Roman Catholic gentry.