m for boring, they are thrust forcibly apart and upwards by
the same power, apparently, that acts upon the twig. I found this out in
a peculiar manner. After marking a site with the twig, I happened to
place my hands together, and to my surprise they came up, and I could
not keep them together.

I must say it was only by accident that I discovered my possession of
this faculty. About 1906, a water diviner visited the Winton district,
and one day several friends and myself went with him in his quest for
water. He explained his methods to the party, and naturally we all
provided ourselves with twigs.

After living so many years in the dry, western country, I was, of
course, very interested in the experiment, and closely following
directions was astonished after walking about for some time to find my
rod revolving slowly. Members of the party near at hand were equally
astonished, and called loudly to the others to "come and look at
Corfield's twig." They, thinking it was due to the twig alone, soon
ruined it, but I felt that I was possessed of some power, which
previously I did not know I possessed, as I knew I was not turning the
stick myself. For about twelve months after that I closely studied every
phase of the phenomenon, and during that time I discovered good water
for many residents in the district.

In 1907, an opportunity came to me to employ my faculty for the benefit
of pastoralists and the State generally.

Mr. R. C. Ramsay, of Oondooroo Station, invited me to ascertain if good
water was obtainable in a dry belt of that country, and in this I was
entirely successful.

It is an interesting fact that I do not require to leave a vehicle by
which I may be travelling in order to carry out my search for water.
Whilst seated in a train, or motor car, travelling at the rate of 30 or
40 miles an hour, I have by means of the rod located streams. If it were
not that the currents were in the air, as I have previously referred to,
I should be insulated by the India-rubber tyres of the motor.

Reverting for the moment to the extent to which the faculty may be
exercised, a diviner is able to fix the breadth of these streams, the
position where their current is strongest, and to give a fairly
approximate estimate of what their supply may be. Without doubt water
can be found by an expert at great depths from the surface (the greatest
depth water was got in any of my sites, that I know of, is 950 feet at
Sandy Creek, eigh