It does not fit into any political or legal limit; it is neither a county, half a county, a hundred, or police division.

But to the farmer it is a distinct land.

If he comes from a distance he will at once notice little peculiarities in the fields, the crops, the stock, or customs, and will immediately inquire if it be not such and such a place that he has heard of.

If he resides within thirty miles or so he will ever since boyhood have heard 'the uplands' talked of as if it were a separate country, as distinct as France.

Cattle from the uplands, sheep, horses, labourers, corn or hay, or anything and anybody from thence, he has grown up accustomed to regard almost as foreign.
There is good reason, from an agricultural point of view, for this.