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to be obliquely twisted, and in a contrary 

 direction to the diurnal motion of the sun. 

 J leave this to the consideration of the cu- 

 rious physiologist; whether it may arise 

 from any thing in the soil or air, or from 

 any polar attraction*. 



Some of these pines bore tufted or fas- 

 ciculated branches near their summits, like 

 those before mentioned, p. 7- 



At length we came to a sort of bay or 

 creek of the river, which we were under 

 the necessity of wading through. The 

 water reached above our waists, and was 

 very cold. In the midst of this creek was 

 so deep a hole that the longest pole could 

 scarcely fathom it. We had no resource 

 but to lay a pole across it, on which we 

 passed over at the hazard of our lives; and 



* It may seem presumptuous to attempt the solution 

 of a question which Linnaeus has thus left in the 

 dark ', but perhaps the almost continual action of the 

 prevailing strong winds, such as he describes in many 

 parts of his journal, may give a twist to the fibres of 

 these pines during their growth. 



