George Windsor Earl the Physical Geography of South-Eastern Asia and Australia", published in 1845, described how shallow seas connected islands on the west (Sumatra, Java, etc.) with the Asian continent and with similar wildlife, and islands on the east such as New Guinea were connected to Australia and were characterised by the presence of marsupials. This formed the insipiration for Alfred Russel Wallace to propose the faunal boundary line now known as the Wallace Line. He published a paper in 1850 that invented the term 'Indu-nesians', for a quaint racial classification, derived from the Latin for India and island. He published a seminal
S-Line (Norfolk Southern) S-Line (Norfolk Southern) The Norfolk Southern S-Line is a secondary railroad line which runs between Morristown, Tennessee and Salisbury, North Carolina. It is operated by Norfolk Southern Railway under 2 divisions. Half of the line is within the Piedmont Division and the other half is in the Central Division. Trains on the S-Line are mainly manifests, locals to and from Asheville and Salisbury, North Carolina and coal trains to Catawba and Belmont, North Carolina. Local trains operate at several different yards between Salisbury and Asheville, North Carolina. Intermodal trains and Amtrak passenger trains do not use this line. All trains