The American Monthly Magazine uses the phrase "narrow neck of land" in 1824, reprinted in The Pennsylvanian.

Date
Apr 10, 1824
Type
News (traditional)
Source
American Monthly Magazine
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

"Biographical Sketch of Andrew Jackson," The Pennsylvanian, April 10, 1824, p. 2, reprint from The American Monthly Magazine, accessed April 29, 2026

Scribe/Publisher
The Pennsylvanian
People
American Monthly Magazine, The Pennsylvanian
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Surrounded almost entirely by the river, it was accessible only by a narrow neck of land, of 350 yards in wedth, which they had taken much pains to secure and defend by placing large timbers and trunks of trees horizontally on each other, leaving but a single place of entrance.

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