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Nasmyth’s Seed Cannon

Abt. 1780 the painter, Alexander Nasmyth designed a tin missile that could be filled with tree seeds and shot out of a cannon. The Duke of Atholl used it to reseed Craig-Y-Barns, a rockface at Dunkeld. The missile exploded, spreading seeds where men couldn’t.

J.H. Mole’s “View from Craig-Y-Barns, Dunkeld, Looking South” (1855)