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50,903 square statute miles, and population 14,995,000, which has, from time 

 immemorial, been divided into forty counties or shires, as follows : 1, 

 Bedford ; 2, Berks (chief tow^n, Reading) ; 3, Buckingham ; 4, CamJ)ridge ; 5, 

 Chester ; 6, Cornwall ; 7, Cumberland (Carlisle) ; 8, Derby ; 9, Devon 

 (Plymouth); 10, Dorset; 11, Durham; 12, Essex; 13, Gloucester; 14, 

 Hampshire; 15, Hereford; 16, Hertford; 17, Huntingdon; 18. Kent; 

 19, Lancashire (Manchester, Liverpool); 20, Leicester; 21, Lincoln; 

 22, Middlesex (part of London) ; 23, Monmouth ; 24, Norfolk ; 25, Nor- 

 thampton ; 26, Northumberland ; 27, Nottingham ; 28, Oxford (Oxford) ; 

 29, Rutland ; 30, Shropshire ; 31, Somerset ; 32, Stafford ; 33, Suffolk ; 

 34, Surrey ; 35, Sussex ; 36, Warwick (Birmingham) ; 37, Westmoreland ; 

 38, Wilts ; 39, Worcester ; 40, York. 



11. The Principality of Wales, with the island of Anglesea (formerly 

 connected with the mainland by a chain bridge, but recently by the cele- 

 brated Britannia Tubular Bridge), has an area of 7425 square statute 

 miles, with 912,000 inhabitants ; it is divided into twelve counties : 1, 

 Anglesea ; 2, Caernarvon ; 3, Denbigh ; 4, Flint ; 5, Merioneth ; 6, 

 Montgomery ; 7, Brecknock ; 8, Cardigan ; 9, Caermarthen ; 10, Glamorgan ; 

 11, Pembroke; 12, Radnor. 



B. The Kingdom of Scotland possesses an area of 32,164 square statute 

 miles, with 2,620,000 inhabitants. Geographically, it may be divided into three 

 parts. North Scotland or the Highlands, South Scotland or the Lowlands, 

 and Middle Scotland or the Islands ; politically into thirty-one counties and 

 two stew^artries. 



These are: 1, Aberdeen; 2, Argyle ; 3, Ayr; 4, Banff;. 5, Berwick; 6, 

 Bute ; 7, Caithness; 8, Clackmannan; 9, Dumbarton; 10, Dumfries; 11, 

 Edinburgh ; 12, Elgin ; 13, Fife ; 14, Forfar ; 15, Haddington ; 16, Inverness ; 

 17, Kincardine ; 18, Kinross; 19, Kirkcudbright ; 20, Lanark; 21, Linlith- 

 gow ; 22, Nairn ; 23, Orkney and Shetland ; 24, Peebles ; 25, Perth ; 26, 

 Renfrew ; 27, Ross and Cromarty ; 28, Roxburgh ; 29, Selkirk ; 30, Stirling ; 

 31, Sutherland ; 32, Wigton. Of the Orkney and Shetland Islands, 

 twenty-six of the sixty-seven belonging to the former are inhabited, and 

 thirty of the eighty-six belonging to the latter. • 



C. The Kingdom of Ireland contains an area of 32,035 square miles, 

 and is divided popularly into four provinces ; politically into thirty- two 

 counties. 



I. Leinster. Counties : 1, Dublin, capital Dublin, with over 300,000 

 inhabitants ; 2, Wicklow ; 3, Wexford ; 4, Kilkenny ; 5, Carlow ; 6, Queen's ; 

 7, King's; 8, Kildare ; 9, Westmeath; 10, Eastmeath ; 11, Louth; 12, 

 Longford. 



II. Ulster in the north, with the counties: 13, Cavan; 14, Monaghan ; 

 15, Armagh; 16, Down; 17, Antrim; 18, Londonderry; 19, Donegal ; 20, 

 Tyrone; 21, Fermanagh. 



III. Connaught in the west, with the counties : 22, Leitrim ; 23, Sligo ; 

 24, Mayo ; 25, Roscommon ; 26, Galway. 



IV. Munster in the south, with the counties : 27, Tipperary ; 28, Water- 

 ford ; 29, Cork; 30, Kerry; 31, Limerick; 32, Clare. 



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