The Areas of the Orographical Regions of and Wales Author(s): Nora E. Macmunn Source: The Geographical Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Mar., 1906), pp. 288-291 Published by: geographicalj Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1776428 Accessed: 27-06-2016 19:20 UTC

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syllabuses prevail and are followed, a new and invaluable instrument will be given to the schoolmaster. Frankly the question of the position of geography in schools cannot be adequately discussed without a reconsideration of the whole curri- culum. The present lopsided courses cannot remain, and something more is wanted to secure a well-balanced education than to patch the existing over-specialized and rather narrow training which they afford.

THE AREAS OF THE OROGRAPHICAL REGIONS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.*

By NORA E. MACMUNN. THE following table has been compiled from planimetric measurements made at the School of Geography, Oxford, on the orographical map of England and Wales, recently published in the Geographical Journal (vol. 24). The limits of the natural regions adopted in making the measurements are shown on the accompanying sketch-map. As a rule, the plains have been measured to the 250-feet contour- line, and the hills have not been considered to begin below that level. Every measurement has been made at least twice, and the mean taken. In many cases four, six, and even eight measurements have been used in determining the mean. The total area of the planimetric measurement was 58,017'1 square miles. The official figures used in the last census were 58,324'2 square miles. The present tables have been reduced from the original planimetric measurements by applying the correction necessary to reduce the area of the map to that of the official figures. The average height of England and Wales, calculated from these measurements, is 385 feet.

AREA OF OROGRAPHIICAL REGIONS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Region. Regio. Under *250 feet.250-5CO feet. 500-1000 feet. 20001000- feet. 2000-3000 feet. ve000rfeet. otals. T t

Square Square Square Square Square Square Square miles. miles. miles. miles. miles. miles. miles. Cheviot Hills (south of the English border) ... 461-2 637-0 307-7 7'3 - 1413-2 Pennine Chain ... - 1609-1 2888'5 1620-0 113-4 - 6231-0 Lake District Mountains t - 453-2 542-0 311-2 65-8 - 1372-2 West Coast (border to Ribble) ...... 974-3 - - - 974-3 Cheshire Plain . .. 1450-4 220 - - - - 1472-4 East Coast (border to Tees) 659-7 - - - - 6597 Tees Valley ...... 2891 -- - - 289-1 Vale of York ... 12428 - - - 1242-8 Vale of Pickering ... 268-0 - - - - 268-0 Holderness ... 519-3 - - - - 5193 Don Valley ... 3977 - - - 397-7 North York Moors (with Cleveland Hills) ... - 323-9 325-9 82-7 - - 732-5 Yorkshire Wolds ... -- 205-0 51-2 - - - 256-2 Trent Valley (with Lincoln Marsh) ...... 2835-0 29-3 - - I - 2864-3

* Research Department, December 13, 1905. Map, p. 289. t There is a small area over 3000 feet in (Scafell, , and ) occupying 0-178 square mile, but which is not shown on the map.

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Under 250-500 500-1000 1000- 2000-3000 Over Region. 250 feet. feet. feet. 2000 feet. feet. 0feet. Totals.

Square Square Square Square Square Square Square miles. miles. miles. miles. miles. miles. miles. Lincoln Wolds ...... - 146-3 73 - - - 153-6 Fenland ...... 1501 - - - - - 1501'4 East Anglia (Fens to Thames Divide) ... 4266-4 366 -- - - - 4303-0 Plain east of Fens (Cam to Welland) . .. 12753 - - - - - 1275'3 East Anglian Ridge ... 644-5 - - - 644-5 Triassic Hills (between and Northamp- ton Uplands) ... .. - 1611-6 231-9 - - - 18435 Northampton Uplands ... - 1566'3 78'1 - -- _ 1641-4 Edge Hill ...... - 265-8 100-1 - - 365-9 Cotteswold Hills ...... 564-0 306-3 3' 6 - - 873-9 Jurassic Hills (between Cotteswolds and Chilterns) - 241-8 36 - - - 245-4 Chiltern Hills ...... 578-5 179-3 - - - 757-8 Upper Thames Valley ... 384'3 126'3 18 - - - 512-4 Lower Thames Valley ... 1615-8 199'8 - - - - 1815-6 White Horse Hills ... 5200 2929 - - - 812-9 Mendip Hills ... 197-5 88-0 - - - 285-5 Salisbury Plain ...... - 465-1 69'5 -- - 534-6 Western Downs. ... 344-2 1099 ~ - - 454-1 Hampshire Downs ... 341-8 53-8 - - - 395-6 Hind Head ...... 63-5 20-7 - 842 North Downs ...- 168-3 1391 - - - 3074 Ragstone and Forest Ridges - 410-1 58-6 - - - 468-7 Vale of Kent ...7... 708-6 - 708-6 Romney Marsh ..878 - - - - 878 N.E. Kent (Foreland of North Downs) ...... 3588 - - - - 358-8 Vale of Sussex ...... 6 4 - 6465 646-5 South Downs ... - 132-5 64-2 - _ 196'7 Plain of Selsey (Beachy Head to Itchen-Test divide) ... 483-2 - - - - 483'2 South Coast (Itchen-Char) 974.5 - - - 974-5 Isle of Wight ... 117-0 22-0 7-3 - - - 146-3 Purbeck Downs ...... - 55'0 14-6 - - - 69'6 Blackdown Hills ...... - 2197 131-6 -- - 3513 Quantock Hills ...- 293 17-0 4-9 - - 51-2 Exmoor ...... - 385-0 431-2 121-1 - - 937-3 Dartmoor ...... - 570-6 418-8 166-8 - - 1156-2 Bodmin Moor - 256-2 191'0 14-6 - - 461-8 Cornwall (south of Fowey and Camel) ...... 380-7 274-5 65'9 - - - 721'1 Fowey to Plain of Somerset 792-8 - - - - - 792-8 Plain of Somerset 6597 - - - - 6597 Avon (Bristol) Valley ... 446-7 36-6 -- - - 483-3 Severn Valley (with Wye and Usk) . .. 16907 - - - 1,690-7 South Shropshire Hills . 340'6 260'0 65-8 - - 666'4 North Shropshire Hills ... - 305-6 2-0 - -- 307-6 Malvern Hills ...... 22-0 14-6 - - - 36'6 Hereford Hills ...... 4138 120-5 - - 534'3 Monmouth Hills .... - 137.4 103-4 1'8 - - 242-6 Black Mountain . .. - 19-8 102-5 51-3 29'3 - 202-9 Brecon Beacon (and out- liers north and south) - 265-7 478-2 481-4 20-1 - 1,245-4 Radnor Forest ...... - 16-0 125-7 80-3 37 - 225-7 Clun Forest .... - 29-3 215-0 185-1 - 429-4

Mynydd Bach Range ... - 4431 6911 395-4 j(Plyn- - 1,5369 I(limon) j

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Over Under 250-500 500-1000 1000- 2000-3000 3000 rotals. egion. 250 feet. feet. feet. 2000 feet. feet. e !

Square Square Square Square Square Square S Square miles. miles. miles. miles. miles. miles. miles. Berwyn Range ... .. - 1500 347-5 388'6 22-0 908'1 Snowdon Range ...... - 102-5 82'3 79-7 220 3'6 290-1 Mountains between Snow- don and Berwyn Ranges - 216-0 4042 336-3 9'1 - 965-6 Lleyn Penin 182'8 16-2 2-0 - - 201-0 North Wales coastal plain 1829 - - - 182-9 Plain of Cardigan 124-5 3-6 - - - 128-1 South Wales coastal plain (border to St. David's Head) ...... 8059 263-6 40-2 - 1,109-7 Anglesey and Holy Island 1590 42-2 - - 201-2 Totals ...... i26,481-6 16,364-5 i10,476-3 4,698-3 300'0 36 ,58,324-3 Percentages ... 45-4 28-0 18 8 05

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SICILY. 'Die Insel Sicilien.' By G. Wermert. Berlin: Reimer (Vohsen). 1905. THESE exhaustive statistical treatises on portions of foreign territory are a speciality of German scientific literature. They stand midway between a Foreign Office special report and the typical British work of travel. We have indeed nothing that quite corresponds to them; for even such books as Lord Curzon's ' Persia' or Sir Harry Johnston's 'Uganda' admit a leaven of narrative. The fact is that we have not got the German public with its amazing appetite for, and power of digesting, solid matter. If such a book as Dr. Wermert's 'Sicilien' could be produced in this country, it would be merely as a necessary book of reference, elaborately broken up into sections and subsections, full of tables and lists, and supplied with minute registers of contents, subject headings to chapters, and copious classified indices. No one would dream of reading it consecutively, but all who had to do with Sicily would use it as a lexicon. The German book, however, comes out, written in long continuous chapters, like any other form of narrative, without paragraph marks, subsectional titles, page subject-headings, or any other help by the way to the searcher. The table of contents is a mere list of main chapter titles, and the two indices of names and subjects, appended to a closely written volume of about 250,000 words, contain scarcely 1000 headings, of which very few have more than one reference. The only possible inference is that there is a public in Germany which is expected to read a book of this kind from cover to cover, and needs no such help in its grim task as is demanded by the less seriously minded Briton. On the other hand, this book is not quite sufficient for the small body of Sicilian specialists; for it gives hardly any references, except to general works. Its manner of treatment is very like that of an encyclopsedia, intended to give as much information as any ordinary inquirer could possibly desire, but not to satisfy the extraordinary student. Dr. Wermert has verified his facts by patient study on the spot, and they may be accepted without reserve; but they are not all u 2

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