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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| FIRTH OF FORTH | Frith of Forth Firth of Forth |
Map attached to Full[arton's] Gazetteer New Stat[istical] Acc[oun]t Map attached to Chalmer's Caledonia Johnston's Co[unty] Map The SArchaeology & Prehistoric Annals of Scotland Sibald's Fife & Kinross Old Stat[istical] Acc[oun]t Broadshaw's Railway Map A small Map of Great Britain & Ireland Rev[erend] Tho[ma]s Doag Mr Hogg Esq[ui]r[e] Mr Milville Map of Torry estate |
Boundary the S[outh] side of the parish Torryburn | An estuary extending from the Bass rock in the German Ocean to near the town of Sterling and dividing the counties of Haddington, Edinburgh and Linlithgow from that of Fife. It receives many considerable and inconsiderable tributaries and embosoms the fortified islet of Inchgarvie, Cramond Isle andInchcolm with its attendant islets, Haystack Carcraig,etc. The Firth here is about 5 miles, and about 6 or 7 miles farther on, it has the island of InchKeith stretching nearly a mile across the Channel. On the north side upon the beach, are the villages of Burtnisland, Pettycur and Kinghorn, the towns of Kirkcaldy and the villages of Pathhead, Dysart and Wemyss, etc. On the south side are the villages of Granton and Newhaven, the towns of Leith, Portobello and Musselburgh, etc. At Leith it is about 6 miles broad, and at the Bass rock where it fairly becomes lost in the ocean, it is about 11 miles in breadth. It is of great importance to navigation & commerce, above Queensferry it is in every part one of the safest roadsteads in Britain. Inverkeithing bay, Burntisland roads, Leith roads and various other localities are places of safe anchorage. On the south side the harbours are Grangemouth, Granton, Leith, Fisherrow, and Dunbar, Granton being the best, and Leith most frequented and the only one of much commercial importance. Abridged from Fullarton's Gazetteer of Scotland. |
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