It was a land of stormy friths and fissured headlands, of deep defiles and snowy summits.
But even their descendants in England had not kept pace, either in the arts of navigation or in thirst for adventure, with their distant relatives, who remained two centuries later among the friths and rocks of Scandinavia.
The author likens Caledonia to a wedge with its apex at the Friths of Clyde and Forth, and its base widening out on either side into the ocean beyond.
This advance called the whole Highlands under arms; but the mighty battle which the united Caledonian tribes offered to the legions between the two friths of Forth and Tay at the Graupian mountains ended with the victory of Agricola.
Down these friths the ice is protruded in huge masses, several miles wide, which continue their course-- grating along the rocky bottom like ordinary glaciers long after they have reached the salt water.
This chart is intended to shew the position of the Rock in reference to the opposite shores of Fife and Forfar, and to the entrances to the Friths of Forth and Tay.
The great places of resort for ships, therefore, in the North Sea, are the Roads of Leith and Cromarty, lying in the Friths of Forth and Moray, as will be seen from Plate III.
This list of shipwrecks strongly points out the dangerous nature of the navigation of the seas and friths of the northern islands of Orkney.
In support of this opinion, we have the most unequivocal proofs of the waters of those friths having formerly occupied a much higher level.
These are the Humber, and the Frithsof Forth and Moray; of which the Firth of Forth is the principal rendezvous.
Friths of Forth and Tay; the more so, from the prevailing winds on the coast, being from the W.
There are no marine limestones except in friths which the elevation of the west and east coasts have placed far inland in the Coanza and Somauli country, and these contain the same shells as now live in the adjacent seas.
It comprehended all England, Wales, and the Lowlands of Scotland, as far as the Friths of Dumbarton and Edinburgh.
He had observed, that the island is almost divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, the Friths of Scotland.
Rivers and narrow friths can seldom interfere with their progress; for the greater part of them swim well, and few are without this power when urged by danger and pressing want.
Great numbers are often drowned in attempting to pass friths and rivers.
While cruising in search of Conflaus, the autumnal equinox drove the intrepid Thurot into the Northern ocean, and compelled him to winter among the frozen friths of Norway and the Orkneys.
He also set many deer friths [forests]; and he made laws therewith, that whosoever should slay hart or hind, him man should blind.
So that in an hour's space the pride and the estate of the Burg of the Four Friths was utterly fallen.
The new folk of the Burg of the Four Friths made him their lord and captain, and the Champions of the Dry Tree obeyed him in all honour so long as any of them lasted.
Also to-day they say in Higham that no otherwise might they ever have overcome the stark and cruel carles of the Burg of the Four Friths and chased them out of their town, as we know they have done.
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