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IV. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



miles, chiefly on faith of the figures cited for counties in 

 Macculloch's Statistics of the British Empire : — 



Subprovinces and areas. 



South, 1337. Mid, 2585. North, 1645. 



West, 2373. Mid, 1625. East, 1466. 



South, 2316. North, 2445. West, 2246. 



South, 1515. North, 2024. West, 2708. 



South, 1754, Mid, 2483. North, 2527. 



Soulh-East, 1972. Souih-West, 2259. 



North Wales, 3194. 



East, 2611. West, 2820. 



Mersey, 2552. 



East, 2500 ? West, 3336 ? 



Tyne, 2968. 



Lakes, 2551. (Isle of Man.) 



South-West, 2525. North- West, 2206. 



East Lowlands, 2485. 



South, 3664. Mid, 3228. North, 2936. 



Inner, 3500. Ebudes, 2000. 



Lower, 2325. Upper, 2441. 



Hebrides, 1000. Orkney, 425. Shetland, 855. 



5. Latitudinal divisions. — For brevity of expression, 

 and to facilitate comparisons, the provinces may usefully 

 be combined into larger geographical divisions, as sub- 

 stitutes for older and less comparable distinctions. 

 England, Wales, Scotland, Lowlands, Highlands, very 

 conveniently express certain divisions of Britain by 

 single words. But they are not portions so well adapted 

 for geographico-botanical comparisons, as some others 

 which may quite readily be indicated as groups of pro- 

 vinces, and with little extra tax on the memory by new 

 names. South Britain, Mid Britain, North Britain, may 

 be the readily remembered names given to three conve- 

 nient latitudinal divisions, traceable on a map thus : — 



