Posted by Ed Kiser on July 08, 2010 at 16:04:26 user Kisered.
I was looking up "dowsing" on the internet and found an article on the subject that included a reference to additional info, and this reference was: PIGEON POST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing
It seems that Ransome is being referenced here as a technical source of info on the presumed "science" of dowsing.
Ed Kiser, Kentucky