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It would seem that the rotation of the planet in the retrograde direction must have accelerated under the contractional cause, rather than have decreased and reversed in direction under an excessively feeble tidal cause.

From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous