Word: dowser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pane. A gold reef appears like a black ridge. Diamonds give off individual vibrations. I cannot explain them." A Johannesburg mining syndicate was well content to let the explanations go, provided Pieter's sharp eyes continued to seek out treasures. They put the boy under contract as a dowser...
...bluff's surface was littered with fragments of pottery and alabaster, but these were modern for Egypt, perhaps 2,000 years old. Dr. Emery was not interested in them. He sized up the lay of the land. Then he pointed, like a "dowser" sensing a deep vein of water. "There's something big," he said, "and very old under there...