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PALM BEACH

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 643 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALM See also:BEACH , a See also:winter resort on the See also:east See also:coast of See also:Florida, U.S.A., in Palm Beach See also:county, about 264 M. S. of St See also:Augustine; served by the Florida East Coast railway. It is situated on a See also:peninsula (about 30 in. See also:long and 1 in. wide) separated from the mainland by See also:Lake See also:Worth, an See also:arm of the See also:Atlantic Ocean, and derives its name from the groves of coco-See also:nut palms which fringe the lake. The coco-nut was introduced here by See also:chance, through the wrecking, off the coast, in See also:January 1879, of a coco-nut-laden See also:Spanish See also:vessel. The Gulf Stream is within about 1 in. of the See also:shore, and the See also:climate is mild and equable, the winter temperature normally ranging between 700 and 750 F. On the Atlantic is the Breakers, a large hotel, and facing Lake Worth is the Royal Poinciana, the largest hotel in the See also:southern states. Palm Beach has few permanent residents and is not incorporated. On the mainland just across the lake is the See also:city of See also:West Palm Beach (pop. in 1905, 1280; 1910, 1743), a See also:pleasure resort and the county-seat of Palm Beach county (created in 1909). PALM-See also:CIVET, or PARADOXURE, the name of the members of the civet-like genus Paradoxurus, represented by several See also:species mainly from See also:south-east See also:Asia. (See See also:CARNIVORA.) Palm-civets are mostly about the See also:size of the domestic See also:cat, or rather larger, chiefly arboreal in habits, with dark See also:uniform, spotted or striped See also:fur. The See also:common See also:Indian palm-civet (P. See also:niger) ranges through-out See also:India, wherever there are trees, frequently taking up its abodes in roof-See also:thatch. Its See also:diet consists of small mammals and See also:reptiles, birds and their eggs, See also:fruit and vegetables.

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young are brought forth at a See also:litter, and are easily tamed. Other species are the Ceylonese P. aureus, the See also:brown P. jerdoni, the Himalayan P. grayi and the Malayan P. Hennaphroditus. The small-toothed palm-civets, from the See also:Malay See also:Archipelago, See also:Sumatra and See also:Java, have been separated from the typical See also:group to See also:form the genus Arctogale. In See also:Africa the group is represented by two species of Nandinia, which show several See also:primitive characters.

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