_Divining-rod_ (Vol. viii., p. 293.).--For a full account of the divining
rod see _La Physique occulte, ou Traite de la Baguette Divinatoire, &c._,
par Pere L. de Vallemont, a work by no means uncommon, having passed
through several editions. Mine is "a Paris, chez Jean Boudot, avec priv.
1709, in 12^o. avec figures," with the addition of a "Traite de la
Connoissance des Causes Magnetiques, &c., par un Curieux."
A Cornish lady informs me that the Cornish miners to this day use the
divining-rod in the way represented in fig. 1. of the above-mentioned work.