Daily National Intelligencer uses the phrase "narrow neck of land" in 1825.
"Nahant Hotel," The Daily National Intelligencer, July 15, 1825, p. 7, accessed April 29, 2026
This commodious and superior Hotel, so celebrated for the resort of company during the last Summer, will be opened for the reception of visitors, on the first of May next, and the subscribers having hired the whole establishment, beg leave to acquaint the public, and especially the numerous strangers who travel north for a salubrious air, with the many local advantages it possesses as a Summer residence, over any Watering Place on the sea coast of North America.
Nahant is a Peninsula, within 14 miles of Boston, by land, and about the same distance by water, elevated upon a bed of Picturesque Rocks, and surrounded with the exception of a very narrow neck of land, by the open Ocean. The plain above is fertile, and the situation is equally healthy and attractive.