#96 Hail-Rod. 
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46. Hail-Rod.—This instrament which was first put in 
in practice by M. Lapostolle, professor of physic and chemis- 
try at Amiens, has been thought very useful in protecting from 
hail, vineyards, and other cultivated grounds in Europe. Dr. 
Pascalis, in an address delivered at a meeting of the New- 
York Seetion of the Linnean Society of Paris, on the 13th 
of June last, after adverting to the discovery of this instra- 
ment, proceeded with the followitig remarks 
“ After these attempts, a member of our Linnzan Society 
took up the experiment on an extensive scale, and with the 
view of obtaining a greater mass of testimonial evidence, he 
Ft ge on a broad range of inhabited and cultivated 
arms in the department of the Pyrenees, protecting by the 
rod, those gpr-es which had becn the most devastated by 
hail ; and dyr ng the three seasons for the trial, of 1821, 722, 
23, the result wasagain highly corroborative. This being made 
public, the use of hail-rods (paragredes) became popular in 
the environs of Munich, ‘Trieste, Milan, and a great part of 
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