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	Malaysia Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Peninsular Malaysia’s longest rivers include the Pahang (470 km/290 mi long), the Kelantan (about 400 km/250 mi long), and the Perak (about 240 km/150 mi long), all of which are navigable for most of their courses.
		European colonizers on Peninsular Malaysia (the Portuguese in 1511, the Dutch in 1641, and finally the English in the 18th century) greatly affected the local literary style.
		Peninsular Malaysia was not unified politically but was split into small kingdoms and subdivided into chiefdoms defined by river valleys.
	www.mal04.moritzmeyer.com /malaysia_article.htm (6647 words)

	Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The terrain and climate vary from rocky deserts in the north to tropical rain forest in the south.
		The administration of President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–2000) continued a policy of privatizing and expanding competition in sea ports, railroads, telecommunications, electricity, natural gas distribution, and airports which was initiated by his predecessors Miguel de la Madrid and Carlos Salinas.
		On the other hand, some Peninsular scholars (such as Ramón Menéndez Pidal) prefer to apply the general spelling rule, arguing that the spelling with an x could encourage non-Mexicans to mispronounce México as /'meksiko/ (as is generally the case in the English-speaking world).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mexico (3442 words)

	Klepeis disseration proposal
		In addition, tropical forests are sources of wood, food and drugs; maintain unique cultures whose knowledge contributes to our understanding of the ecosystem; and have their own intrinsic value as forms of life (Brown and Pierce 1994; Myers 1992; Place 1993; Plotkin 1993).
		Between 1970 and 1990, four fifths of Mexico’s tropical and temperate forests were destroyed, largely because of government settlement schemes and expanded ranching (Sonnefeld 1992).
		The southern Yucatán peninsular region (SYPR) crosses the southern portions of the states of Quintana Roo and Campeche, Mexico, from the Caribbean Sea to the Gulf of Mexico.
	earth.clarku.edu /lcluc/r_klepeis_diss.htm (5728 words)

	David Levy Yulee Papers - UF Special and Area Studies Collections
		This railroad was incorporated in 1853 as the Florida Railroad, with construction beginning in 1856 at Fernandina and reaching Cedar Key by 1861.
		He was president of the Florida Railroad Company from 1853 to 1866, and president of the Peninsular Railroad Company, the Tropical Florida Railway Company, and the Fernandina and Jacksonville Railroad Company.
		Railroad offices were located in Gainesville and Yulee traveled between Fernandina, his home, and these offices until union troops forced the evacuation of Fernandina in 1862.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/pkyonge/Yulee.htm (1571 words)

	List of railroads incorporated in Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most of the railroads were chartered by the Florida State Legislature, but some were incorporated under the general incorporation laws.
		The Legislature met every two years, which is why most railroads were incorporated in odd-numbered years.
		Peninsular Northern Railroad (name changed from Lakeland, Mohawk and Tavares Railroad)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_railroads_incorporated_in_Florida (161 words)

	India. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The much narrower western coast of peninsular India, comprising chiefly the Malabar Coast and the fertile Gujarat plain, bends around the Gulf of Khambat in the north to the Kathiawar and Kachchh peninsulas.
		The coastal plains of peninsular India have a tropical, humid climate.
		India’s rainfall, which depends upon the monsoon, is variable; it is heavy in Assam and West Bengal and along the southern coasts, moderate in the inland peninsular regions, and scanty in the arid northwest, especially in Rajasthan and Punjab.
	www.bartleby.com /65/in/India.html (5946 words)

	JACKSONVILLE'S RAILROAD HISTORY
		A lady passenger on that railroad complained, "The engine was so small that if a cow strayed on the tracks, the engineer has to dismount from the cab and drive the animal off with a cattle whip".
		Scads of little railroads laid a few miles of track here and there out of Jacksonville before they were abandoned, merged, or were bought up by other railroads.
		As railroads moved into new areas, settlers and tourists could be brought in, the U.S. Mail could reach towns quickly, lumber and phosphate could be exported, and Florida's fruit and vegetables could move to northern markets before they spoiled.
	www.cowart.info /Florida%20History/trains/railroad.his.htm (3586 words)

	Florida Historical Marker Program @ Florida OCHP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Upon completion of the railroad to Deer Hammock in 1859, the name of the town was changed in honor of James T. Archer, Florida's Secretary of State 1845-49 and advocate of internal improvements.
		Because the route of the Florida Railroad, completed in 1861 and reorganized after the War, passed west of the region, the Santa Fe Canal Company was chartered in March of 1877 to open a waterway from the railroad in Waldo through Lake Alto to Santa Fe Lake.
		Railroad construction bypassed the town, and by the 1890's Leno became a ghost town.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /services/sites/markers/markers.cfm?click=1 (18542 words)

	GOES-8 Results
		Tropical storm Nadine is directly south of Michael, joined by a weather front that pushed off North America, and is expected to carry Nadine northwest from her current location.
		Tropical storm Madeline and hurricane Lester visit the southwest coast of Mexico at 1745 UTC on 17 October 1998.
		Tropical storm Gordon trying to be a hurricane, and the coastal remnants at full resolution, 17 November 1994, 10:45 am EST, covering the southeast coasts of the USA with a wide variety of cloud formations.
	rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov /goes/text/goes8results.html (15978 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		Other important cities are Guadalajara (1,628,617), a vital mining center; Monterrey (1,064,197), an industrial area and railroad center; Puebla (1,054,921), one of Mexico’s oldest cities and a pottery manufacturing center; León (872,543), the center of an agricultural area; Ciudad Juárez (797,679), a commercial and manufacturing center; and Tijuana (742,686), a tourist and industrial center.
		Highest of all classes was that of the peninsulares, those born in Spain, as opposed to the criollos, or Creoles, persons of pure European descent who had been born and raised in New Spain.
		The peninsulares were sent from Spain to hold the highest colonial offices in both the civil and church administrations.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/mexico.html (8728 words)

	South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation
		The principal rivers of Peninsular India are the Chambal, Son, Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, Cauveri, Narmada, and Tapi.
		To counteract this marked periodicity of river flow, ground water wells and tube wells are widely used for irrigation in the Northern Plains and peninsular delta regions; and many dams have been built on the major rivers to regulate river flow and distribute water for an intricate system of irrigation canals.
		The peninsular uplands support tropical monsoonal deciduous and scrub forest, while the wetter slopes of the Western Ghats support a tropical monsoonal deciduous forest, with an evergreen cover in some areas.
	www.south-asia.com /saarc/india.htm (3236 words)

	COUNT?
		A nation of Southeast Asia, Malaysia consists of two components: peninsular Malaysia, which is part of mainland Southeast Asia, and the states of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo.
		Peninsular Malaysia covers an area of 50,806 square miles (131,587 square kilometers) and consists of the states of Perlis, Kelantan, Kedah, Terengganu, Pinang, Perak, Pahang, Negeri Sembilan, Selangor, Melaka, and Johor.
		As mountain land is cleared for lumbering and farming, the pressure on the fragile environment increases soil erosion in the mountains and silting of the valleys' irrigation systems.
	www.parida.com /asianeconomies.html (4371 words)

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		In these tropical regions the conditions of nature are so various that all the forms of the animal and vegetable kingdoms must radically differ from what we are used to in Europe.
		Thanks to the vultures, the bones are laid bare in less than an hour, and, in two or three weeks, the tropical sun scorches them into such a state of fragility, that the slightest breath of wind is enough to reduce them to powder and to carry them down into the pit.
		The railroad wanders round the foot of the most charming little hills, skirts hundreds of pretty lakes, and pierces with more than twenty tunnels the very heart of the rocky ghats.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/caves10.txt (21031 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Florida
		The Peninsular or Everglade State, the most southern in the American Union and second largest east of the Mississippi, lies between parallels 24° 38' and 31° N. latitude and meridians 79° 48' and 87° 38' W. longitude.
		Politically, the State is divided into forty-six counties, geographically into the peninsular section, stretching 450 miles north and south, average width 95 miles, and the continental or northern portion, measuring 400 miles from Alabama to the Atlantic, mean width 65 miles.
		Its eastern coast-line, comparatively regular, is 470 miles long; it is paralleled almost its entire length by sand reefs which enclose an inland waterway, and its outline is prolonged in the chain of coral and sandy islets known as the Florida Keys, which extend 200 miles in a south-westerly direction, terminating in the Tortugas.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06115b.htm (6119 words)

	india (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The plains are bordered on the north by the foothills of the Himalayas; south of the Bramaputra basin are the Khasi Hills and Shillong Plateau; and south of the Indo-Gangetic Plain rise the uplands of Peninsular India.
		Peninsular India is geologically the oldest part of India.
		To counteract this marked periodicity of river flow, groundwater wells and tube wells are widely used for irrigation in the Northern Plains and peninsular delta regions; and many dams have been built on the major rivers to regulate river flow and distribute water for an intricate system of irrigation canals.
	members.fortunecity.co.uk /vasanth/india.html (5570 words)

	Surveying and Land Information Science: Modelling the Optimum Routes for Linking Potential Reservoir Sites to Demand ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The usual cost factors considered are distance, topography, geology, river and wetland crossings, road and railroad crossings, and proximity to large population centers (Feldman et al.
		In land tropical forest, mangroves, shrub, agricultural land, sandy beaches, and the newly expanding developed urban areas form the cover of Langkawi Island.
		Two-thirds of the island are mountainous areas with tropical and mangrove forest types.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4039/is_200409/ai_n9473531 (1282 words)

	Vance dissertation proposal
		As Sanderson (1986: 39, 243) has suggested, the agricultural sector in Mexico during this era was an ‘adjunct of industrialization’, functioning both as a provider of cheap food to urban areas and as a buffer for labor not absorbed by industry.
		Linking the two entrepots of Chetumal and Escarcega via a largely unexploited tropical expanse, the highway was part of an extensive road-building project across the peninsula that was intended to integrate the peasant economy with local urban centers (Ewell and Merrill-Sands 1987: 111).
		An econometric study of the causes of tropical deforestation: the case of Northeast Thailand.
	earth.clarku.edu /lcluc/r_vance_.htm (11619 words)

	Tropical Peninsular Railroad -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tropical Peninsular Railroad -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		(A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Florida state law chapter 3336, approved March 8, 1881, incorporated the Tropical Peninsular Railroad Company.
		The deadline was changed; the work was to begin within 12 months of the new act, with completion within four years of March 8, 1881.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Tr/Tropical_Peninsular_Railroad.htm (109 words)

	sOUTH fLORIDA 2
		Situated on the best harbor on the gulf coast, the first railroad there would reap vast riches from the potential growth of the port and would have control of shipping on the Gulf of Mexico to the West Indies within their grasp.
		Only one man would have the power and determination to push the little narrow gauge South Florida Railroad to its destiny at Tampa and he was Henry B. Plant, a shrewd Connecticut Yankee whose Savannah, Florida and Western RR had pushed as far south as Gainesville and Jacksonville, Florida.
		Here the future of the South Florida Railroad’s future was assured, as Tampa became a major city and port beating out the Florida Transit and Peninsular and grabbing the best terminal facilities in the area.
	www.taplines.net /southflorida/southflorida2 (1803 words)

	WaldoHistory.com - Economy
		He also grew canna lilies and gladiolas on the property where the Waldo Flea Market is now located on US 301, shipping bushels of bulbs of the tropical plants north by railroad freight.
		Mr.W.T. Cheeves, one mile south of the town near the Peninsular Railroad, had an orange tree which burned.
		The railroad was essential to transporting the crops to the north.
	waldohistory.com /Economy.htm (897 words)

	SCV Camp 15 David Levy Yulee
		He built Florida's first long railroad, from Cedar Key to Fernandina Beach, to carry cargoes which would be shipped north from that port.
		The Confederacy stripped the steel rails from his railroad tracks to rebuild bombed railroad lines needed to move Confederate armies.
		He then returned to the pursuit of building the Florida railroad and served as president of the Florida Railroad Company, 1853-1866; president of Peninsular Railroad Company, Tropical Florida Railway Company, and Fernandina and Jacksonville Railroad Company.
	scvcamp15.com /diversity_jewish_yulee.html (528 words)

	IK Dr. Perrine
		The Tropical Plant Company of Florida was formed with Dr. Perrine, Judge James Webb of Key West and Charles Howe, postmaster of Indian Key being its directors.
		In addition, the F.E.C. railroad planned to "cut down trees, destroy vegetation, dig up the soil and construct ditches and embankments...to the permanent and irreparable injury of said land." Some of the settlers agreed having believed that the railroad would not proceed any farther south than Miami.
		The case was dismissed by the Supreme Court on November 11, 1898 and the railroad could proceed to build to Homestead.
	www.keyshistory.org /IK-dr-perrine1.html (1180 words)

	Absorbtours®, Inc. \| Malaysia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The ride to the Cameron Highlands from Kuala Lumpur is a special treat since it affords you a stop in charming Ipoh.
		This former tin mining capital is home to a classic, old railroad station and a fascinating Chinese cave temple which are wonderful reminders of the cultural heritage of Malaysia.
		Depending upon your interests, you may want to renew your wedding vows in a traditional Malay ceremony, spend a few nights with local villagers in their homes or learn from great chefs about the delicious variety of ethnic cuisines in Malaysia.
	www.absorbtours.com /page5.htm (1139 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Asia Minor
		The peninsular mass that the Asiatic continent projects westward of an imaginary line running from the Gulf of Alexandretta (Issus) on the Mediterranean to the vicinity of Trebizond (Trapezus) on the Black Sea.
		The Greek communities in Asia Minor cherish no public duty more than that of education, and make many sacrifices in order to provide for their children, in primary and secondary schools, a high grade of the education they admire.
		It is in reality a genuine Hellenism based on the study of the ancient classic writers, the history of their ancestors both peninsular and continental, antipathy to Islam, a strong sense of mutual relationship, and a civil hope that they will again be called to the direction of public life throughout the peninsula.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01782a.htm (10210 words)

	THAILAND NTDB OVERSEAS BUSINESS REPORTS access provided by UM-St. Louis Libraries
		It owns and operates the postal service, telephone, telegraph, radio, and television communications, the railroads, ports, and an airline.
		Tropical Sea Air Company was granted a license in May 1991 to offer seaplane services linking beach resorts in the Gulf of Thailand.
		The southern line extends along the entire east coast of peninsular Thailand and joins the Malaysian railroad system at the border.
	www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/obr/obr_0009.htm (15639 words)

	Hospital for Tropical Diseases online shop: health products and travel products for tropical holidays, backpacking ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hospital for Tropical Diseases online shop: health products and travel products for tropical holidays, backpacking holidays or adventure travel.
		Risk is negligible in the area between Cartagena and Barranquilla and in the peninsular portion of Guijira Department.
		There is no significant railroad transport in Columbia.
	www.thehtd.org /travel/destination.asp?DocID=41 (2390 words)

	The Perrine Land Grant
		When he returned, he was offered LaFitte Island in New Orleans which he refused and instead sailed for Indian Key and then to Washington lobbying his request for a land grant in South Florida.
		After going through a Senate investigation, on January 28, 1897, the settlers received a total of 2,000 acres, the Perrine heirs 10,000 acres and the two railroad companies, The Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad and the Florida East Coast Railway, 5,000 acres each.
		American Contract and Finance Company a New York corporation assigned to the interest of Charles Howe and others sued everyone involved challenging that half of the Perrine land grant was theirs for their early involvement.
	perrine.gssites.com /perrinegrant.htm (597 words)

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