something enclosed within land; or that is remote from the ocean.

MEDITERRANEAN is more particularly used to signify that large sea which flows between the continents of Europe and Africa, entering by the straits of Gibraltar, and reaching into Asia, as far as the Euxine sea and the Palus Maeotis.

The Mediterranean was anciently called the Grecian sea and the Great sea. It is now cantoned out into several divisions, which bear several names. To the west of Italy it is called the Ligurian or Tyrrhenian sea; near Venice, the Adriatic; towards Greece, the Ionic and Aegean; between the Hellespont and the Bosphorus, the White sea, as being very safe; and beyond, the Black sea, its navigation being dangerous.

The British trade carried on by means of the Mediterranean sea is of the last consequence to Great Britain; and the permanent preservation thereof depends on the possession of the town and fortification of Gibraltar.

The counterfeiting of Mediterranean passes for ships to the coast of Barbary, &c or the seal of the admiralty office to such passes, is felony without benefit of clergy. Stat. 4 Geo. II. c. 18.