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whose hands the twig moved readily enough, and in a way that 

 deceived all who were present at the time, except ]\Iullias him- 

 self, who pointed out a slight diflference in the movement of the 

 twig, by which he knew it was caused by the will merely of the 

 holder. This my friend at once admitted, and showed us how 

 he did it. 



I am not so unreasonable as to desire to inflict upon this 

 meeting more than a small proportion of the evidence I have 

 accumulated in the course of my investigations. In selecting 

 what I shall lay before you, my endeavour has been to illustrate 

 as many different points as possible. 



The Earl of Jersey, the Lord-Lieutenanc of Oxfordshire, a 

 nobleman who has no ordinary endowment of business capacity, 

 as anyone in that county will testify, has frequently employed 

 Mullins on his estates to find water. I have both conversed and 

 corresponded with his lordship's estate agent, Mr. W. D. Little, 

 and he informed me that a number of wells had been sunk on 

 the estate on spots indicated by Mullins, and in every case 

 abundant supplies of water had been obtained from them. Mr. 

 Milton Druce, of Fyfield, Abingdon, a leading agriculturist, a 

 member of the Council of the Bath and West of England Society, 

 the Smithfield Club, and other bodies, informed me that Mullins 

 not only discovered water for him but told him at what depth it 

 would be found, and his accuracy was proved within a foot 

 when the well was sunk. On one occasion, in order to test 

 Mullins, he took him across a grass field, underneath which there 

 was a drain for the conveyance of water. It had been put in 

 many years before, and not a trace of it was visible above 

 ground ; nevertheless the rod in Mullins' hands at once indicated 

 the presence of water, and correctly traced the whole course 

 of the drain. 



I have a letter from Mr. W. H. Ashhurst, of Waterstock, a 

 county magistrate of Oxfordshire, testifying that he was present 

 when Mullins was divining for water on Mr. Henley's estate, 



