• These humps are pulled at by the moon, and the earth rotates on its axis against this pull.
• The planet rotates in twenty-four hours as we do; but its tides are following its moon more quickly than it rotates after them; they are therefore tending to increase its rate of spin, and to retard the revolution of the moon.

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