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Example sentences for: firth
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In 1964 a sister structure, the Forth Road Bridge, was completed to take vehicular traffic across the Firth.
They consolidated their gains by building Antonine’s Wall across the waist of Scotland between the Firth of Forth and the River Clyde in about a.d. 150.
Even here the Waters are really little more than a large stream, but they flow into the Firth of Forth and beyond into the North Sea.
Even after Hadrian’s Wall was built in the second century a.d. , marauding bands from the north figured out a way to circumvent this formidable line of defense by launching their boats across the Solway Firth, landing on the coast of Cumbria south of the Wall, and attacking the Romans from behind.
The logistical problems of spanning the Firth were numerous, but their solution resulted in one of the greatest engineering achievements of the Victorian era, the Forth Railway Bridge.