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The word "descendants" suggests generations going "down" into the future.
The usual convention for family trees has the latest-born generation at the bottom and earlier-born generations progressively higher up the page.
This convention was probably what conditioned me to say "across, then down", but I confess I didn't think about it at the time. Why, indeed, should our posterity be lower, and our antecedents higher?
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