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‘susceptible, or ‘sensitive.’ When Lord Dysart took hold of Mrs. 
Manners’ two wrists, while she was insulated and tried to restore 
the circuit which had been suspended, he entirely failed to do so, 
_ because he was a ‘non-sensitive,’ another word, in his case, for 
‘non-conductor,’ but when the Rector, who, from sundry idiocratic 
sensations, had already discovered in himself a susceptible 
tendency, took hold of her wrists, the violent vibratory 
motion of the rod instantly began again, thus indicating that the 
conductivity through his organism was perfect and the circuit 
again fully established. This was repeated again and again on 
other occasions, with the same instant and unvarying results.” 
I will now read the paper entitled “ Experiments in Water 
Divining,” I sent to the Bath Chronicle and which was printed in 
_ that newspaper last June. 
‘‘TIn a pamphlet published by Messrs. Baker and Son, of Clifton 
- and London, in 1894, on ‘ The Divining Rod and its Uses,’ it is 
stated that Mrs. Manners in water divining experiments, 
- discovered that her influence or power was due to magnetic or 
electric force, and that needles could readily be magnetized by 
, permitting the current to run through a copper-wire held in her 
hands over a spring of running water, and that these, when thus 
‘magnetised, would attract other needles. These experiments 
were corroborated by the Rev. W. G. H. MacKnight, Rector of 
Silk Willoughby, who states that the current, whatever it is, 
follows the known laws of electricity.” 
_ Having been for several years interested in water divining, as 
_ practised by Mr. Leicester Gataker, who has the gift developed in 
very high degree, I undertook to make some exhaustive 
experiments to ascertain if, with Mr. Gataker, the current could 
be made to show phenomena as described by Mrs. Mannersand Mr. 
y acKnight. I, therefore, made an appointment with Mr. Gataker 
last April (1898) and arranged to experiment in the presence of 
Mr. W. Kemble, late of the Bengal Civil Service, and his son, an 
