People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1894 — A Long Peninsula. [ARTICLE]

A Long Peninsula.

Lower California, which somebody periodically threatens to purchase and bring under the territorial dominion of the United States, is the longest of North American peninsulas. It is of about the same area as Florida. Its greatest length is about eight hundred miles and its greatest width about one hundred and forty-five miles. The whole peninsula is subtropical in climate and productions, and its extreme southern end is just within the torrid zone. The coast line on gulf and ocean Is about seventeen hundred miles in length. The population is sparse, and the means of communication are so undeveloped that it is one of the most remote regions in tho civilized world. The gulf ports are almost unknown to people of this country.