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Definition
a narrow strip of land (with water on each side) that connects two larger areas of land
- So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow.Chapters 76-78 — The Battering-Ram; The Great Heidelburgh Tun; Cistern and Buckets (26% in)
There are no more uses of "isthmus" in Moby Dick.
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