The town is curiously placed, for the older part lies on a neck or isthmus protruding northward between two magnificent bays, and it is the curve on each side of the neck that makes the east and west side face respectively Porthminster or Porthmeor.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
Late in 1901, newspapers in the United States began urging the purchase from Colombia of a land belt across the isthmus to be United States territory.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
Although he had once a wild dream of restoring the palace of Polycrates, and one, more sane, of a canal through the Corinthian isthmus, he also thought of wiping out the memory of the poems of Homer.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill