perninsular

Updated: May 3, 2025

It's right down at the foot o' this 'ere lane, an' a wery sweet 'ristocratik spot it is quite a perninsular, bein' land, leastwise mud, a'most surrounded by water, the air bein' 'ighly condoosive to the 'ealth of rats, likewise cats.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Rivers of Ice