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over the last peg marked, we found the stream turned due South 
under a limestone hill off my property. 
I was of course greatly disappointed, and quite hopeless of any 
result, asked Young to dowse over a field called “ Taylor Hill.” Almost 
immediately he struck on a stream and on the side of the hill (exactly 
300 yards from my house and several feet above it) the stick twisted 
considerably. 
Here a well was sunk twenty-two feet. This filled in the winter, 
but soon became dry in the summer, and in September 1889 (Thomas 
Young had died) Thomas Day, another noted dowser, who also lived 
at Rowberrow, descended the well with me. The twigs were much | 
agitated and one after the other, if not allowed to twist, snapped off. 
Day said, ‘‘ There is a lot of water under here.” He undertook the 
sinking, and sunk thirty feet more when the water came in so fast he 
had to leave, and ever since, even during this dry summer (1893) I 
have had plenty. 
Of dowsing itself I can offer no expianation. I am contented with 
the result. On one occasion the late T. Young was showing his art 
over a spring when a gentleman who happened to be with me, 
scoffingly said, ‘‘ Anyone can make the twig turn.” He took thetwig, 
ignorant that he himself possessed the faculty, the twig twisted 
directly he arrived over the spring, and so startled him, that he 
dropped it at once ! 
WOODLANDS, 
CONGRESBURY. 
The well in question was sunk through the New Red Marl which 
here rests on the Carboniferous Limestone, and apparently the water 
was found before the Limestone had been reached. It seemed an 
unlikely place to meet with a spring. H. H. W. 
On arriving at the Mansion of Col. Long the second party of 
non-pedestrian members of the Field Club was met with after 
having been most hospitably entertained by Mrs. Long, which 
same hospitality was now repeated to those who had braved the 
drought and heat of the day and the seven miles of steep and 
slippery limestone country. This second party had started by 
the 10.18 a.m. train from Bath for Congresbury, where the Vicar 
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