 On the other hand, Alexander Salt suggested in his "Introduction to the History of Manila" that the city got its name from its location on the tongue of the land.He lay claim that Maynila is from the Tagalog phrase "sa may dila" ("in the tongue") that mainly describes the location of the city in the tongue of the land mass.Salt also cited in his work that Manila had been called the “Nuremberg of the East.” He clarified that may be it entirely correct or not, it is at least "full of suggestions" as “She (Manila) alone, amid the hurry of twentieth century civilization, and the characteristics of the Orient, sits serene in the medieval grandeur.” The history, as Salt expounded, had the walls, the buildings, the squares and the streets as its witnesses.