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truest sense of such a term, except the man who can look up to the 

 reconciled face of his Father. I may admire a statue, a painting, or some 

 other work of art, but I cannot love it; so God's works may be admired 

 by all His creatures, but only His children can love them." 



That these few scanty remarks may induce some of the talented con- 

 tributors to "The Naturalist," to bring the benefits resulting from the 

 study of Natural History more prominently before the working classes, and 

 thus cause them to study for themselves, is the earnest wish of the writer. 



Airdrie, January 25th. ^ 1856. 



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Having for some years past observed in this neighbourhood the growth 

 of the tops of some sorts of trees in high exposed situations, greatly 

 inclining to the eastward, indeed I may say in most cases due east, and not 

 being able satisfactorily to account for this phenomena, I venture to call 

 your attention to it, thinking some of your scientific readers may kindly 

 solve ray difiiculty. 



These trees grow at an elevation of from five hundred to one thousand 

 feet above the sea, and at a distance of about twenty to twenty-five miles 

 in a direct line from the shore of the Irish Sea, in the Bay of Morecambe. 



One of the most remarkable with which I am acquainted, (an Ash,) 



is now growing about ten chains, or two hundred and twenty yards, north 

 of the village of Feizor, near Settle; on the north side of the tree is a 

 low limestone scarr, (cliff,) from the base of which the ground dips to 

 the south, the upper part of the slope being covered with small loose stones, 

 from amongst which the Ash grows; the main stem is three feet three 



