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Example sentences for: firth

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Approximately 13 kilometers (8 miles) west of the city is Queensferry, a town that developed as a crossing point of the Firth of Forth for routes to the north of Scotland.
James Edward Stuart, known as the “Old Pretender,” traveled up the Firth of Forth in 1708 but was driven back by British ships and bad weather.
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.
The views from the summit of Arthur’s Seat — nobody is quite sure which Arthur gave his name to the hill — offer wonderful views of the city and across the Firth of Forth to the north.
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.