Note 5 — ON THE INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY WHICH MAN HAS ACQUIRED BY SPEECH, AND THE POSSESSION OF THE HAND.

It is equally curious to observe that geographical positions, and the principal features of sea and land, have derived their origin from the rude anatomy of the human body. Thus, in a short enumeration we have cape or head-land, ness, noss, or nose; the brow of a mountain; tongue of land; mouth of a river; chaps of the channel; neck of land; arm of the sea; coast, costæ, the ribs. We are said to penetrate into the heart of the country, or to remove to the back settlements. We descend into the bowels of the earth, in order to discover a vein of ore. We ascend from the foot of the mountain; and from its ridge (back) survey the prospect surrounding. Numerous additions might be contributed by further recollection.