Fort William, a small police-burgh in Inverness-shire, 66 m. SW. of Inverness, near the southern end of the Caledonian Canal; the railway station stands on the site of the old fort, which in 1655 was built by Monk; a meteorological observatory was erected here in 1889.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Fort George * Fortescue, Sir John