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Definition of Firths
1. firth [n] - See also: firth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firths
Literary usage of Firths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Circular Notes: Extracts from Journals, Letters Sent Home, Geological and by John Francis Campbell (1876)
"DENUDATION BY ICE, firths, ETC. I WILL not stop to argue that glaciers wear rocks
under them. The majority of geologists know the fact: the minority would ..."
2. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"Fiords plentiful along west coast, but not so on east coast—Depths in the firths
of east coast—Examples of fiord-basins—Examples of deflection-basins— Union ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... in Gaul and the consolidation of Roman authority in Britain by Cneius Agrícola,
who built the chain offerts between the firths of Clyde and Forth. ..."
4. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"... the successor of Hadrian, another wall was built, some fifty or sixty miles
north of the first, between the firths of Forth and of Clyde. ..."
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