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feet the water rushed in, and rose till it stood about 8 feet 

 deep, at which it now remains, having, in the meantime, fully 

 supplied all the requirements during building the house, which 

 were probably not less than 1,000 gallons a day for three 

 years or more. I may add that I have since had occasion to 

 sink a shaft for a lift between the two lines indicated by MuUins, 

 some 12 yards or 15 yards from either, and to a depth consider- 

 ably greater tlian the well. As no water came into this, though 

 the formation was precisely similar, and the well has not been 

 affected by it, I am satisfied that, had I not employed MuUins, 

 I might have sunk wells in any number to no purpose under my 

 house, unless I had happened to hit upon the rUls indicated by 

 him with such perfect precision." 



There are one or two remarkable features in this letter : — . 



1. — It shows that the diviners were more correct in their 

 conclusions than the geologists. I do not call attention to this 

 with a view to reflecting in any way upon the latter, but 

 merely to meet the scientist's argument that a knowledge of 

 physical geography and geology is amply sufficient to account for 

 the divining power. If the stone mason and the gardener 

 had in this case proceeded upon these lines, in all probability 

 Sir Welby Gregory would have waited in vain for the water 

 which, under other circumstances, he obtained. 



2. — The letter testifies to the diviner's utility in pointing out, 

 not only where water is, but where it is not, which, as some 

 persons contend it can be found almost anywhere, is worth 

 remarking. 



3. — It furnishes a remarkable instance of the corroboration of 

 one diviner by another. 



I will trouble you with extracts from another letter, as the 

 evidence is valuable, as coming from one so well-known as the 

 present Earl of Wincliilsea, he being at the time the letter was 

 written, viz., in 1884, the Hon. M. E. G. Finch-Hatton, M.P. for 

 the Spalding Division of Lincolnshire, and also because it supplies 



