place of honour; as when Solomon “caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand” (1 Kings ii. 19). Again, the term is frequently used in opposition to _semol_, left hand; as when the children of Israel would pass through Edom; “We will go by the king’s high way; we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left” (Num. xx. 17). But a further use and significance of the terms helps us to the fact that the Hebrew _yamin_ and our _right hand_ are the same. In its secondary meaning it signified the “south,” as in Ezekiel xlvii. 1: “The forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.” The four points are accordingly expressed thus in Hebrew: _yamin_, the right, the south; _kedem_, the front, the east; _semol_, the left, the north; _achor_, behind, the west. To the old Hebrew, when looking to the east, the west was thus behind, the south on his right hand, and the north on his left. This determination of the right and left in relation to the east is not peculiar to the Hebrews. Many nations appear to have designated the south in the same manner, as being on the right hand when looking to the east. Its origin may be traced with little hesitation to the associations with the most ancient and dignified form of false worship, the paying divine honours to the Sun, as he rises in the east, as the Lord of Day. Thus we find in the Sanskrit _dakshina_, right hand, south; _puras_, in front, eastward; _apara_, _paçchima_, behind, west; _uttara_, northern, to the left. The old Irish has, in like manner, _deas_ or _ders_, on the right, southward; _oirthear_, in front, east; _jav_, behind, west; _tuath_, north, from _thuaidh_, left. An analogous practice among the Eskimos, though suggested by a different cause, illustrates a similar origin for the terms “right” and “left.” Dr. H. Fink in a communication to the Anthropological Institute (June 1885) remarks: “To indicate the quarters of the globe, the Greenlanders use at once two systems. Besides the ordinary one, they derive another from the view of the open sea, distinguishing what is to the left and to the right hand. The latter appears to have been the original method of determining the bearings, but gradually the words for the left and the right side came to signify at the same time ‘south’ and ‘north.’”