The search for submerged treasure going on for the past two or three years in Tobermory bay, on the West of Scotland, has been the means of awekart. All ordinary means having failed to locate the much desiderated Spanish pallion, the syndicate conducting the earch evoked the assistance, recently, of a mater diviner, who bad been prospecting all his life for various kinds of metals, as well as for streams, cly guns aod some relics of slight value, and thees articles were funnd embedded in several feet of silt and ander many fathoms of water. Of gold and silver little or nothing was discovered, Opicion appears to be pretty well divided as to whether the 's wand ind certain guide to needed and it is a curious circumstance that local authorities possess, evidently, no legal right to employ a dowser or pay for his services out of the rates. Not long #9, the members of a certain parish council who had commissioned a water finder, were sarcbarged the fee paid to him, the Government auditor maintaining that there are no such hared by a considerable the population, Among nobelievers most be counted the famous novelist, Mr, Rider Haggard. In his " Raral England," he tells of dowser who assured his employer that at depth of " hundred fect " splendid supply of water might be strack. " The results were " 300 feet shaft with a little mater at the bottom such as accumulates UN
73 in what are called weeping well,' and till for £150," Mr. Haggard that it would have been more advisable to take the opinion of a "competent water engineer."
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