text: " [Footnote 35: This isthmus is said by Lieutenant Wellsted to be "about 200 yards in breadth:" perhaps a misprint for 1200 as a writer in the _United Service Journal_ May 1840 calls it 1350 yards; and according to the plan in the papers laid before Parliament it would appear to be rather more than half a mile at the narrowest part where it is crossed by the Turkish wall