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in the United States. The bishops, ministers, priests, 

 and clergy of the above churches exceed in number 

 80,000. The religion, the blood, the laws, and insti- 

 tutions of Old England live in America. Thus that 

 ■wonderful Anglo-Saxon race that is diffusing itself 

 over the globe is rapidly absorbing all other races 

 in America. 



I now close this volume with the following interest- 

 ing article from the pen of an educated and scientific 

 physician of Haverhill, Massachusetts. 



Witch Hazel Pointers. — Singular Electri- 

 cal Phenomena. — It has been a common belief 

 among a large class in the community for many 

 years, that springs of water beneath the earth's sur- 

 face were pointed out by the mysterious movements 

 of witch hazd rods, held in the hands of persons cap- 

 able of exercising this wizard power. 



Statements made, time and again, by men of 

 much probity and intelligence, of the wonderful 

 accuracy of these witch hazel pointers in directing to 

 the proper locality for success in boring for water, 

 have attracted but very little attention from men of 

 science. They have probably regarded them as 

 savoring too strongly of that vulgar necromancy, 



