among geographers, the same as a peninsula, or land almost encompassed by the sea, and only joined to the continent by a narrow neck or isthmus. The word is Greek, Χερσονησος, from Χερσος, land, or earth, and νησος, island. In ancient geography it was applied to several peninsulas, as the Chersonesus Aurea, Cimbria, Taurica, and Thracica, now thought to be Malacca, Jutland, the Crimea, and Romania.