Sixthly, That before the Inventor came to the Court of 
Spah^ he rpade divers Try als in his own Country , wherein he 
fucceeded according to wiflij and thereupon made the great try- 
alof this Engin before his prefent Imperial Majefty, in the 
fields of Luxemhourgin ^/ff/^r/^^where the land ufually yields four 
or five fold but the Crop from the ground fow'd with this In- 
ftrument was ftxty ioXd , as appears by a Certificate given in 
VienniL Au^. i. i66^. ft. n. by an Officer of the Fmperor.ap- 
pointed to fee the faid ground fowed andieapcd; which Certi- 
ficate was thought needlefs toinfert verbatim. 
Seventhly yjhn this Priviledge being difpatch't and the Seed- 
time then approaching, he (the Inventor^ forth.uch pub* 
lillit his Contrivance , and Infl:ru6lions5 as follows ; 
I. There is a Box of Wood , having a Cylinder or Roler 
palling at each end into two wheels ^ let about with ftron^' 
nails and divided into three equal parts, furrounded upon the 
lines of divifion with litle Bras-fpoons . equally diftant from one 
another 5 foas each of them in onerowis pofited over a^ainft 
the middle of the oppofite interftice of the other row 5 which 
Spoons in the turning of the Inftrument takeup, each^c ne An- 
gle grain at a time, and throw it out at certain holes ^ into the 
ploughed ground. The parts of it are thefe In the firfi pUte 
reprefenting this ^^m^r^^/t^r, I.fliows the Intire Box without 
the Wheels^^^^-^/checoverof that part, where the Corn is put 
in;,which is openin i^/g-.I.at W.And^/Z^^^/.thetwo fides which 
cover that part of the Box 5 where the Cylinder , which is ftuck 
round with three rows of litle fpoons, is moved about to throw 
out the Corn 5 which fides are taken oS 'mFig, 2. to make the 
Cylinder RS with the Spoons xxx appear: the inner fliape 
of which fides is exprefs'd \nFig. 35 where may be feeen the 
four Triangular pieces pppp, leaving Triangular interftices 
q qqy which ferve to convcigh the Corn carryed up in the Spoons, 
and difchargedac the top ot the Cylinder , io as they may 
jufl: run out at the holes underneath the Box^ the parts of which 
anfwer to the parts of the firft Figure according to the letter. T. 
is one of the Wheels V , the other end of the Cylinder, 
upon which the other wheel is to be placed. 
2. This Semhrador muftbetyed faft to the Plough , in the 
man- 
