Note 181 — Chapter XIII · BLAS EL GUERRILLERO. A BANDIT’S STORY.
Reading edition
I can fancy some hypercritical persons quarrelling with this expression of the worthy Señor Blas; since Ceuta is not actually an island. But it is cut off from the main land by so wide a salt water ditch, that I think he was almost warranted in using the word sea-girt.