. Cassier's magazine. L THE DIVINING ROD AGAIN By Rossiter W. Raymond A. N illustrated article inthe American Ma^chinist, of July 21,1904, entitledA Water Di-viner and HisWork, re-vives again thesubject of thedivining - rod,which has beenfor more thanfour hundredyears the themeof particularcontributionpresents nospecial resembleshundreds of others, which,singly and in the aggregate,have failed thus far to provethe validity of the claims of the prac-titioners of the occult art concerned. Of its three illustrations, one showsthe boring tools used to bore the welllocat
. Cassier's magazine. L THE DIVINING ROD AGAIN By Rossiter W. Raymond A. N illustrated article inthe American Ma^chinist, of July 21,1904, entitledA Water Di-viner and HisWork, re-vives again thesubject of thedivining - rod,which has beenfor more thanfour hundredyears the themeof particularcontributionpresents nospecial resembleshundreds of others, which,singly and in the aggregate,have failed thus far to provethe validity of the claims of the prac-titioners of the occult art concerned. Of its three illustrations, one showsthe boring tools used to bore the welllocated by the diviner, and another, thestream of water afterwards pumped fromthe said well. These are, of course,quite irrelevant to the previous opera-tions with the rod. The remainingillustration is from a photograph show-ing a test experiment, made after a wellhad been bored, in which two gentle-men are endeavouring in vain to preventthe twig from turning in the hands ofthe diviner as he stands over the sub-terranean stream. The picture and text suggest forciblythe uns
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