Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
My Essay on the "Divining Rod," (_vulgus_, "Water-Witching,") having proved interesting to a number of my friends, I have concluded to give it to the public, with the hope that some useful practical results may be derived from it. I have no apology to make for presenting this...
My Essay on the "Divining Rod," (_vulgus_, "Water-Witching,") having proved interesting to a number of my friends, I have concluded to give it to the public, with the hope that...
2. Part 2A peculiar test occurred at Toulon, Illinois. I was talking on the subject with a friend, a lawyer of that place, one dark night at about nine o'clock. He asked, "Can you tell h...
3. Part 3"'L'Homme a la Baguette, from experience, could with tolerable accuracy, tell the depth at which the springs were, and their volume, from the force with which the baguette turne...
4. Part 4There is a mystery in the hidden flow of subterranean courses of water, and in the occurrence of deposits of valuable ores, which encourage a resort to mysterious methods for di...
5. Part 5I understand fully the method of calculating the depth of water beneath the surface. What you wish to know is, after the substance is shown to exist beneath a certain point, whe...