 | Jacob Abbot Cummings - Cartography - 1825 - 216 pages
...road, at the mouth of James' river. An estuary or a frith is Hie widening of a river towards its mouth into an arm of the sea ; as the frith of Forth. A...sound is a strait so shallow, that it may be sounded or measure*! with a lead and line ; as Long Island sound. A river is a large land stream of water ;... | |
 | John White - Great Britain - 1836 - 234 pages
...is a narrow passage of water joining two seas. A La fee is a collection of water surrounded by land. A Frith or Estuary is the widening of a river into an arm of the sea. A River is a considerable stream of water, running into the sea, or into a larger river. The Equator... | |
 | Richard HILEY - 1843 - 166 pages
...the land. A Road affords anchorage a little way off the land, with partial shelter from the winds. A Frith or Estuary is the widening of a river into an arm of the sea; as, the Frith of Forth, the Humber. A Sound is a strait so shallow that it may he sounded; as, the Sound of Mull in Scotland.... | |
 | Richard Hiley - Geography - 1848 - 76 pages
...Hacen or Harbour is a place where ships may lie in safety ; as, Portsmouth Harhour, Milford ,Haven. A Frith or Estuary is the widening of a river into an arm of the sea ; as, the Frith of Forth, the Humher. A Sound is a strait so shallow that it may he sounded ; as, the Sound of Mull in Scotland.... | |
 | Edmund Markham Heale - 1853 - 296 pages
...left, of one going from its source to its mouth. A Frith or Estuary, or Fiord (pronounced Fiurth}, is the widening of a river into an arm of the sea ; as the Frith of Forth. The land is generally divided into four great portions : they are, Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.... | |
 | Richard Hiley - Geography - 1866 - 152 pages
...A Hacen or Harbour is a place where ships may lie in safety; as, Portsmouth Harbour, Milford Haven. A Frith or Estuary is the widening of a river into an arm of the sea; as, the Frith of Forth, the Humber. A Sound is a strait so shallow that it may be sounded ; as, the Sound of Mull, in Scotland.... | |
 | James Donald (F.R.G.S.) - 1868 - 104 pages
...fjord, connected with the root of fare, to go, and ferry} is a narrow arm or channel of the sea, or the widening of a river into an arm of the sea, as the Firth of Forth. An Estuary is the mouth of a tidal river, and is so called from the boiling or foaming... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1870 - 386 pages
...except at a narrow neck which communicates with the sea — as Milford Haven, Portsmouth Harbour, &c. A Frith or Estuary is the widening of a river into an arm of the sea — as the Frith of Forth, the Plumber. A Sound is a strait so shallow that it may be sounded — as the Sound of Mull, in Scotland.... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1872 - 156 pages
...Haven or Harbour is a place where ships may lie in safety ; as, Portsmouth Harbour, Milford Haven, A Frith or Estuary is the widening of a river into an arm of the sea ; as, the Frith of Forth, the Humber. A Sound is a strait so shallow that it maybe sounded; as, the Sound of Mull, in Scotland.... | |
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A Frith or Estuary is the widening of a river into an arm of the sea; as, the Frith of Forth, the Humber. 