8 INTRODUCTION. 
reckoned in the nineteen Western Sub-provinces, forming West 
Britain ; while Shetland and Orkney, with Mid Channel and 
East Channel, are to be reckoned among the nineteen Eastern 
Sub-provinces, forming East Britain. 
A clear understanding of these various divisions or sections of 
the whole area of Britain, more or less in use through this 
present work, as well as in the volumes of the original Cybele 
Britannica, is quite necessary to those readers who may consult 
either of the works. The subjoined enumeration of them in 
detail, with the aid of the map, will shew all the provinces and 
their subordinate partitions, as well as the three series of. con- 
secutive Nos. by which they are respectively distinguished. 
I—Divisions of Britain into Eighteen Provinces, as indicated by 
Nos. on the margin of the Map. 
I. PENINSULA. X. HUMBER. 
II. CHANNEL. XI. TYNE. 
Til. THAMES. XII. LAKES. 
IV. OUSE. XIII. WEST LOWLANDS. 
V. SEVERN. XIV. EAST LOWLANDS. 
VI. SOUTH WALES. XV. EAST HIGHLANDS. 
VII. NORTH WALES. XVI. WEST HIGHLANDS. 
VIII. TRENT. XVII. NORTH HIGHLANDS. 
Ix. MERSEY. XVIII. NORTH ISLES. 
I1.— Subdivisions of the primary Provinces into the 
38 SuB-PRovINcES, and 112 Counties and Vice-Counties. 
A TL. 
I. Sourm Prwninsuna. IV. West CHannen. 
1 West Cornwall. 7 North Wilts. 
2 East Cornwall. 8 South Wilts. 
TI. Mm Penrnsvuna. 9 Dorset. 
3 South Devon. V. Mip Cuannet. 
4 North Devon. 10 Isle of Wight. 
III. Norte Preninsvna. 11 South Hants. 
5 South Somerset. 12 North Hants. 
6 North Somerset. VI. East Cuannet, 
