There are spaces, which on the map look large, and yet have no distinctive character, no individuality as it were.

Such broad expanses of plain and vale are usefully employed in the production of cattle and corn.

Villages, hamlets, even towns are dotted about them, but a list of such places would not contain a single name that would catch the eye.

Though occupying so many square miles, the district, so far as the world is concerned, is non-existent.

It is socially a blank.