28 JULY 1866, Page 1
THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY of ENGLAND.—A Series of Articles will shortly
be commenced in the SPECTATOR, containing the history of each province in England so far as it is separate from that of the nation, its geography, its ethnology, and the special part it has borne in the Tuitional story. The Series will commence with "Tile {Vest Country," the word province not being used as synonymous with county, but including any district visibly possessing a specia,4 though provincial life. For example, the West Country forms such a district, and so do the Eastern Counties, or the Illidlam4 or Lancashire and Cheshire, each having marked peculiarities of its own, which escape those who have not made then, a subject of study.
