which was originally drawn
or
or
; here it is plain that, by lopping off some of the limbs of this rude representative of the human species, we leave something like the form of the present character, though it would appear, that a long succession of ages must have polished the rough material to the improved shape which it now possesses. Again, the character to denote ‘the ear,’ was formerly drawn
which is now softened into the present form, thus
