ENGLAND. 



667 



JHatis'ics. 



Result of his By means of this scale, the following calculation of 

 calculation, the whole area of England and Wales, and of the par- 

 ticular areas of the different counties, as well as the 

 proportion which each county bears to the whole of 

 South Britain, has been given by Dr Becke. 



Part of South 

 Britain. 



Bedford 293,059 ... 131 



Berks 464,538 ... 80 



Buck's 461,729 ... 83 



Cambridge 530,020 ... 73 



Chester 801,196 ... 48 



Cornwall 961,906 ... 40 



Cumberland 986,462 ... 39 



Derbyshire 697,761 ... 55 



Devonshire 1,802,893 ... 21 



Dorsetshire 757,006 ... 50 



Durham 662,416 ... 58 



Essex 1,050,243 ... 36 



Gloucester 841,161 ... 45 



Hereford 598,682 ... 6* 



Hertford 412,690 ... 93 



Huntingdon 216,970 ... 177 



Kent . 1,012,019 ... 38 



Lancashire 1,173,618 ... 32 



Leicestershire 538,554 ... 71 



Lincolnshire 1,6'97,913 ... 23 



Middlesex 184,068 . . . 209 



Monmouth 331,494 ... 116 



Norfolk 1,267,277 ... 30 



Northampton 652,276 ... 59 



Northumberland 1,455,313 ... 26 



Nottingham 511,896 ... 75 



Oxfordshire 485,246 ... 79 



Rutland 122,983 . . . 313 



Salop 881,125 ... 43 



Somerset 1,073,960 ... 35 



Southampton 1,040,158 ... 37 



Stafford 807,900 ... 47 



Suffolk 938,61-9 ... 41 



Surry 484,954 ... 79 



Sussex 935,789 ... 41 



Warwick 624,530 ... 61 



Westmoreland 502,780 ... 75 



Wiltshire 924,667 ... 41 



Worcestershire 431,446 ... 89 



Yorkshire 3,797,511 ... 10 



North Wales 2,110,225 ... 18 



South Wales . . . 

 Total number of acres in! 



2,980,389 ... 13 



England and Wales '} 38,498,572 



Very littl* addition will be necessary to be made to 

 tbis calculation, from the circumstance of the irregula- 

 rity or unevenness of the surface of England ; and not 

 much even for the mountainous districts of Wales. Dr 

 Becke supposes, that in the clayey, gravelly, and sandy 



Progressive 

 geography. 



First periotl 



soils, which predominate on the eastern side of the Statistic^ 

 kingdom, the increase of surface, frem its irregularity s "" > "V*^ 

 or unevenness, does not amount to much more than 

 the 1000th part; that in the hilly and chalky counties, 

 it scarcely exceeds the 400th part ; and that, making a 

 greater allowance for Wales, Westmoreland, and other 

 very mountainous districts, it will not collectively 

 amount to more, at most, than between 120,000, and 

 150,000 acres. 



The progressive geography of England and Wales 

 may be classed under four periods, which will supply 

 us with the divisions of this country, at the time when 

 the Romans invaded it ; during their abode here ; du- 

 ring the Saxon heptarchy ; and at present. 



At the period of the invasion of the Romans, the 

 Danmonii inhabited the counties of Cornwall and De- 

 vonshire ; the Durotriges, Dorsetshire ; the Belgse, So- 

 merset, Wiltshire, and the northern part of Hampshire; 

 the Attrabatii, Berkshire ; the Regni, Surrey, Sussex, 

 and the south part of Hampshire ; the Cantii inhabited 

 the county of Kent ; the Trinobantes, Middlesex and 

 Essex ; the Iceni, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, 

 and Huntingdonshire ; the Catecuchlani, Buckingham- 

 shire, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire ; the Dobuni, 

 Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire ; the Silures, Here- 

 fordshire, Monmouthshire, Radnorshire, Brecknockshire, 

 and Glamorganshire ; the Dimetse, Caermarthenshire, 

 Pembrokeshire, and Cardiganshire ; the Ordovices, 

 Flintshire, Denbighshire, Merionethshire, Montgome- 

 ryshire, Caernarvonshire, and the Isle of Anglesey; 

 the Cernovii, Cheshire, Salop, Staffordshire, Warwick- 

 shire, and Worcestershire ; the Coritani, Lincolnshire, 

 Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland- 

 shire, and Northamptonshire ; the Brigantes, York- 

 shire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Cumberland, and 

 Durham ; and the Ottodani, Northumberland. 



During the Roman period, England w; divided in- s ccon ,v r 

 to the following large provinces, the extent and boun- Roman 

 daries of which are not, however, exactly ascertained: period. 

 Brittania Prima, which comprehended the whole south- 

 ern part of England, as far as the mouths of the Severn 

 and the Thames ; Brittania Secunda, which compri- 

 sed modern Wales ; Flavia Cassariensis, which compre- 

 hended the middle of England, from the Thames to the 

 Humber ; Maxima Ca?sariensis, in which were included 

 a part of the northern counties, from the Humber to 

 the Tyne, on the east side, and from the Mersey to the 

 Solway Frith, on the west side of the kingdom. The 

 province of Valencia seems to have comprised the re- 

 mainder of the northern counties, and to have been 

 formed and named when the province of Vespasiana, 

 which included part of the south of Scotland, was re- 

 conquered. 



During the Saxon period of the history of England, Third or 

 this country formed a heptarchy, or seven kingdoms, Saxon 

 which were divided in the following manner : . period. 



Kent, comprehended the county of Kent; it was 

 founded by Hengist, in the year 454, and terminated 

 in the year 823. 



Sussex, or the kingdom of the South Saxons, com- 

 prehended the counties of Sussex and Surrey : it was 

 founded by Ella, in the year 4til, and ended in the 

 year 685. 



The East Angles comprehended the counties of Nor- 

 folk, Suffolk, C;iinl)rid^c.shire, and the isle of Ely : it 

 was founded by Una, in the year 565, and terminated 

 in the year 792. 



Wessex, or the kingdom of the West Saxons, com- 

 prehended the counties of Cornwall, Devonshire, Dor- 



