I. TOPOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS. 5 
of the counties into the eighteen primary provinces being the 
guide to all other divisions and combinations, whether larger and 
fewer, or smaller and more numerous sections. Through a 
reference to the subjoined list, any plain county map of Britain 
may readily be converted into a provincial map, by colouring such 
of the outlines of counties as constitute any portion of the bound- 
aries of the provinces. For example, a coloured line along the 
contiguous boundaries of Devon and Somerset, on the one side, 
with Dorset and Wilts on the other side, will separate the province 
of the Peninsula from that of the Channel; and in like manner a 
coloured line traced along the northern boundaries of Wilts, 
Hants and Sussex, will separate the Channel province from that 
of the Thames. 
List of Provinces and their included Counties. 
1. Pentysunta.—Cornwall, Devon, Somerset. 
2. CaanneL.—Dorset, Wilts, Isle of Wight, Hants, Sussex. 
3. TuHames.—Kent, Surrey, Berks, Oxford, Bucks, Middlesex, Herts, Essex. 
4. Ousr.—Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Bedford, Huntingdon, North- 
ampton. 
5. SEvERN.—Gloucester, Worcester, Warwick, Stafford, Salop, Hereford, 
Monmouth. 
6. Sours Wares.—Glamorgan, Caermarthen, Pembroke, Cardigan, Bre- 
con, Radnor. 
7. NortH Wares.—Montgomery, Merioneth, Caernarvon, Denbigh, Flint, 
Anglesea. 
8. Trent.—Leicester, Rutland, Lincoln, Notts, Derby. 
9. Mersry.—Cheshire, Lancashire. 
10. Humsper.—York. 
11. Tyne.—Durham, Northumberland. 
12. Laxes.—Westmoreland, Cumberland. (Isle of Man). 
13. West Lowzanps.— Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Wigton, Ayr, Lanark, 
Renfrew. 
14. East Lownanps.—Berwick, Roxburgh, Peebles, Selkirk, Haddington, 
Edinburgh, Linlithgow. 
15. East Hiaunanps.—Fife, Kinross, Clackmannan, Stirling, Perth, For- 
far, Kincardine, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray (including Nairn, 
Elgin, and the north-east of Inverness). 
16. West Hicuianps.—Dumbarton, Argyle, Inverness, westward of Loch 
Erricht. Isles adjacent, from Arran to Skye. 
17. Norra Hicuranps.—Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness. 
18. Nortu Istes.—Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland. 
