"Of Harewell's blodde ere Conquest made, Knowne to descende of gentle race." Nash, in his _History of Worcestershire_, makes mention of this singular monument, but is anything but correct in giving its inscriptions. CUTHBERT BEDE, B. A. T. W. D. BROOKS will find this word used by some modern authors to denote a child. In _Moral and Sacred Poetry_, selected and arranged by the Rev. T. Willcocks and the Rev. T. Horton (Devonport, W. Byers, 1834), there is at p. 254. a piece by Baillie, addressed "To a Child," the first line of which runs thus: "Whose _imp_ art thou, with dimpled cheek?" And in a poem by Rogers, on the following page, the children of a gipsy are called _imps_. J. W. N. KEYS. Plymouth. * * * * * THE DIVINING ROD. (Vol. viii., pp. 293. 479.) The inclosed extract from a letter which I have just received from a friend on the subject of the divining rod, will probably interest your readers as an answer to a Query which appeared some weeks ago in your excellent work. You may entirely rely on the accuracy of the facts stated. J. A. H. "However the pretended effect of the divining rod may be attributed to knavery and credulity by philosophers who will not take the trouble of witnessing and investigating the operation, any one who will pay a visit to the Mendip Hills in Somersetshire, and the country round their base, may have abundant proof of the efficacy of it. Its success has been very strikingly proved along the range of the Pennard Hills also, to the South of the Mendip. The faculty of discovering water by means of the divining rod is not possessed by every one; for indeed there are but few who possess it in any considerable degree, or in whose hands the motion of the rod, when passing over an underground stream, is very decided; and they who have it are quite unconscious of their capability until they are made aware of it by experiment.