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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DIVINING-ROD. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH. BY HENRY WHITE, PH.D. When a boy at school I used to spend my summer holidays with an uncle, a farmer, on the borders of Hampshire and Wiltshire, a far more agreeable mode of spending the time than conjugating verbs in fu, or hearing the Pius ./Eneas infandum renovare laborem to Queen Dido. One day I saw a little group of people on the other side of the valley, walking apparently in procession. At once I scampered off through brake and briar to learn what it meant; but all I can remember was a man walking about two yards ahead of the others, holding a forked hazel stick in his hand, and dodging about in a very eccentric manner. I was told afterwards that he was old Jem Brown, ex-poacher, etc., who lived down street, and that he was water seeking. This was about the year 1826. About six years later I became intimate with a family in Worcestershire, one of the members of which was said to possess this water-finding faculty. I heard of instances in which the young lady's skill had been tried, but never witnessed an experiment. These are the latest examples I know, of the long-continued belief in the virtues of the divining-rod. These virtues may be (and probably are) imaginary, the adepts may be cunning tricksters, but every now and then some new witness comes forward with fresh instances, that almost shake our scepticism. In the American Journal of Science (vol. iii., 182], pp. 102-104), is a letter from the Eev. Ralph Emerson, containing an account of several well- authenticated facts on the use of mining-rods, as they were called. He relates how an old schoolfellow (Rev. Mr. Steele of Blomfield, N.Y.), had called upon him a few weeks before, and in the course of conversation had mentioned that the rods wou...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217373500
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 228
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021737350X
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 413 gr


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