Profersor W. F. Barrett, one of the founders and presidents of Research Society, scientist, who mad experiments with the view of solving once for all the problem of whether or not diviners were what they represented themselves to be. For his operations he fixed in the firat instance, upon two small fields surrounded with high walls on the side of m somewhat lofty Irish mountain. A dowser was brought over from England, who knew nothing of Erin or its geology, and whose education and acquaintance with books were very limited. He was not told where was to go, nor was he given an opportanity of interviewing anybody in the neighbourhood. In one field he promptly indicated a spot where, he ssid, plenty of water could be obtained at 'a depth of fifteen feet, In the adjacent part, where the water was really required, be declared that there was none. Another "inspired" person was thea called in, and within
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