£2 Griffith Taylor: 



The diviner used a forked rod 1 of " red gum," cut from the 

 adjacent clump to the north (see map). He tested for water 

 hereabouts, but found none. Then he walked south (see Fig. 

 1), and the fork began to dip 200 feet away from the old 

 clump. He followed the " flowing stream " towards the old 

 Post Office. It crossed the spur of undecomposed porphyry 

 shown in Plate iv., Fig. 1, and traversed the yard. Here 

 it was said to be confined to a belt of about 100 yards wide, 

 and the diviner advised the owner to sink in the middle of the 

 belt, just where it. left his property. 



The owner, with great energy and perseverance, sank his 

 well through the decomposed zone fringing the porphyry bluff. 

 I measured the rocks roughly as follows : — 



Top 18 inches grey soil. 



6 inches ironstone gravel. 

 24 inches clay. 



6 inches coarse gravel. 

 18 inches clay. 

 12 inches gravel. 

 12 inches clay. 



6 inches gravel. 

 48 feet decomposed porphyry-tuff. 

 Bottom 8 feet less decomposed tuff. 



Total 64 feet. 



A vertical " vein," or crack, with pug, was some assistance 

 in excavating for the lower thirty feet. Great credit is due 

 to the owner for his energy, for the work occupied his spare 

 time for eight months. At fifty-six feet some water came in, 

 giving fifteen gallons by the morning. At sixty-four feet, water 

 was "bubbling in." (See Plate IV.. Fig. 2.) 



The well supplies from 400 to 800 gallons in twenty-four 

 "hours, as far as we could roughly measure it. A 400 gallon tank 

 is filled, and a luxuriant garden is the result of the well. 



The diviner had estimated that water would occur about 

 fifty-six feet. The method (as I was told in another case) 

 probably being to divide the width of the belt by tzvo, and change 



yards into feet! i.e., |— ' = depth in feet. 



1 The forked rod used had a butt 2J inches long and h inch diameter. Each leg was 16 

 inches long- and about xV inch diameter. 



