This channel, which was discovered by Captain Fitz Roy during the last voyage, is a most remarkable feature in the geography of this, or indeed of any other country: it may be compared to the valley of Lochness in Scotland, with its chain of lakes and
friths. It is about one hundred and twenty miles long, with an average breadth, not subject to any very great variation, of about two miles; and is throughout the greater part so perfectly straight, that the view, bounded on each side by a line of mountains, gradually becomes indistinct in the long distance.
Smee (formerly a pupil of Sharpe of
Frith Street, a dissolute, irregular, and unsuccessful man, but a man with great knowledge of his art) being the cousin of Miss Wirt, we say, and introduced by her to Miss Osborne, whose hand and heart were still free after various incomplete love affairs, felt a great attachment for this lady, and it is believed inspired one in her bosom.
Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more Worlds, Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while, Pondering his Voyage; for no narrow
frith He had to cross.
For Wednesday's 7.45pm recital, as guests of the Hexham & District Music Society, the Friths will play Mozart's Piano Quartet in E flat, K493, and the Walton Piano Quartet.
A FACE familiar to devotees of the annual Corbridge Chamber Music Festival will be spotted on stage at a Hexham recital next week when Benjamin Frith brings his piano quartet to the Queen's Hall.
Since 1998 Frith has been a member of the Gould Piano Trio, which organises the Corbridge event, but since 2001, in addition to solo recitals, he has been performing at international venues with three like-minded musicians as the Frith Piano Quartet.
The Friths' St Asaph county councillor John Arthur Smith last night offered his sympathy.
Claire Frith, originally from Saron near Denbigh, died on the Indian Ocean paradise of Mauritius.
Francis Friths Welsh Castles is available from all good bookshops priced pounds 9.99 or from The Frith Book Company, Friths Barn, Teffont, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP3 5QP.
I HAVE just come across a truly fascinating new book by Clive Hardy, Francis Frith's Welsh Castles.
Church authorities would not comment last night on suggestions that Mr Flower had been deliberately moved to Dartmouth and the Friths to Yorkshire so they would be as far apart as possible.
The Rev Roger Flower, 52, has been having a secret relationship with mother-of-four Jill Frith, 42, wife of Bishop of Hull the Right Rev Richard Frith, 49.