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# Title: Leibnitii Protogaea. Abschrift der Protogaea von Eccard revidirt, unter dem Titel: De ortu et antiquissimo statu rerum naturalium in regionibus Brunsvico-Luneburgensibus Dissertatio (shelfmark Ms XXIII, 23b)
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tractus, quo illa contra utrum.
que Oceanum obfirmata est; et
in Europa nostra inconditi
Scandinaviae scopuli; et Alpes
a Lannonia pene ad Hispancae
fines Ialiam praecingentes;
et postremo noster. infanonia
Duucterus
eacelsissimus ec Meo
tractu, quem a resinosis arbo.
ribus, non obscuro oercyniae
vestigio vocamus Htarcieum
nemus, cujus potissima pars
Brunsvicensi ditione contine
tur. Sed non ideo negamus, soli.
dato jam, ut nunc, globo, mi-
nores eaustiones, et terrae
motus, et privatas eluvio
nes, et sedimenta restagnan-
trum aquarum supervenisse;
qui magnos saepe tractus
obtinerent converterentq.
uorum apud nos quoque
vestigia mea dabuntur.
Nec dubium est, freta
alieubi perrumpente
mari effracta; terras in
voragenem absorptas et
stagno mutatas; numc
inandata litora nunc de
stituta; oppressa loca inferi–