, is a portion or extent of land which is almost surrounded with water, being joined to the continent only by an isthmus, or narrow neck. Such is Africa, the greatest Peninsula in the world, which is joined to Asia, by the neck at the end of the Red Sea; such also is Peloponnesus, or the Morea, joined to Greece: and Jutland, &c. Peninsula is the same with what is otherwise called Chersonesus.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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