ENGLAND, the southern division of Great Britain, situated in the Atlantic ocean, between 2° E. and 6° W. longitude, and between 49° 55' and 55° 55' N. latitude.
There are in England, including Wales, fifty-two counties, two archbishoprics, twenty-four bishoprics, two universities, twenty-nine cities, upwards of eight hundred towns, and near ten thousand parishes; supposed to contain about 7,000,000 of people.