among modern geographers, the same with a peninsula; or a continent almost encompassed round with the sea, only joining to the main land by a narrow neck or isthmus. The word is Greek Χερσονησος; of χερσος, land, and νησος, island; which signifies the same. In ancient geography, it was applied to several peninsulas; as the Chersonesus Aurea, Cimbrica, Taurica, and Thracica, now thought to be Malacca, Jutland, Crim Tartary, and Romania.