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45020	Latimer, Charles	The Divining Rod: Virgula Divina—Baculus Divinatorius (Water-Witching)			.txt	text/plain	17469	782	69	My Essay on the "Divining Rod," (_vulgus_, "Water-Witching,") having attention--that of finding water by means of the "divining rod"--is rod:--A forked branch, usually of hazel, said to be useful to discern Another authority gives the following: "Divining rod--A hazel twig cut He came into my office one day and said: "Mr. Latimer, do you not think there is water under that ground?" I the rod, and pronounced the depth to the water to be fourteen feet, gifted persons were enabled to discover mines, springs of water water below the surface, the rods turned slowly and regularly, in the springs by means of the divining rod, and upon this man he made more I proposed the divining rod; "for" said I, "Dr. Ashburner would not think it a foolish experiment." Harriet P. divining rod in her hand, and Numa, inspired by a water-nymph, divining rod in discovering both water and the ores of calameni or	./cache/45020.txt	./txt/45020.txt