Re: Vintage Water Divining manual dowsing 1925 FA


"Jo Schaper" <joschapern4ospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> JaneyP wrote:
>> Springs of Water and How to Discover them by the Divining Rod by B
>> Tomkins author of Theory of Water Finding. 1925 Dustwrapper a bit
>> tired,grubby,original owners inscriptions,otherwise a good copy.green
>> cloth boards.
>> Really rare book by B Tomkins ,the famous Water Finder of Thetford .How
>> rare are Water divining manuals? Well,in many years of book buying,I've
>> only seen one other and that a booklet with it's covers detached! Mr
>> Tomkins certainly seems to know his stuff,the book is prefaced with
>> illustrations of medals he has won,as well as several pages of
>> satisfied patrons,ranging from the Duke of Beaufort,Duke of
>> Marlborough, and others ,down through more minor members of the
>> landholding aristocracy,and ending with various brewers,waterworks &
>> laundries.
>>
>> Some chapters:- Theory of Water Finding an Ancient Art /Brief sketch of
>> my career /A valuable sptring found /Springs found in curious
>> places-Waterfinding in deep snow /Springs & courses of water /The
>> divining rod ,or dowsing rod as used in the search for underground
>> water /Estimating depth & yield etc.
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6999358331&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1
>>
>
> a) This is a science newsgroup; we have no use for dowsing.
>
> b) If we did, a quick look under New Age or Metaphysics will net you
> dozens of more up to date how-to books on dowsing. May be of interest to
> an antiquarian bibliophile, though.

I'm not suggesting that there is any science to it, but I have seen dowsers
at work many times. Drillers often dowse, and so do utility workmen. I
was conducting an environmental site investigation as a Chevron station in
1991, and needed to have the buried utilities re-marked because some of the
markings didn't stay very long for some reason. A guy from the Metro sewer
district came out and began dowsing the site, marking what he claimed was
buried sewer lines, and then began dowsing near the area where our drill
rig was set up (we were going to install environmental ground water
monitoring wells), and told us that there was something underneath where we
were going to drill. His dowsing rods were definitely being deflected. I
checked the company's site plan again and there wasn't supposed to be
anything in that area. I asked the manager of the station if he knew of
anything in the immediate area, and he knew of nothing. After a few
moments' discussion, I gave the reluctant driller the go ahead to start
drilling, but to go slowly for the first five feet. Sure enough, after
about two feet of drilling, an abandoned (thankfully) power cable from a
former pump island got wrapped up onto the auger. I've seen similar
instances as well. I've seen them get it wrong as well. I had a driller
swear there was a buried utility right where I wanted him to drill. He had
dowsed it earlier. Knowing that the guy just didn't want to drill that
day, and knowing that all the buried utilities were on the other side of
the road, I insisted that he go ahead and drill. He did finally drill the
well at the location I wanted. There was nothing there to cause us any
problems. Anyway, that's just my two cents worth. Dowsing supposedly
detects electro-magnetic flux, but it could be anything (look up to make
sure there aren't any phone cables of power lines overhead), or nothing at
all. Who knows? Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. I have no idea
how or why.

George


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