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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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ora et angustius ruinis mon-
tium interclusas, intercepto
aquarum cursu; vicissim erum.
pentes via vi facta lacus et
eacavatas ad effluocum valles;
natos Vulcanios montes et de
natos; lateque sparsos pumices,
et vestigia incendiorum impref.
sa. Sed quid privatis impu
tandum sit, aut publicis cau-
sis, facilius aliquando statuet
porteritas, eaplorata melius
humane generis sede.
L. Quemadmodum autem (Unde fuerit aqua, quae terram obtegit,
omnia initio ignis corripuit,
antequam lux a lenebris seces.
sisset; ita restincto incendio,
omnia de inde aquis mersa
censentur. Res sacris nostro-
rum monumentis traditur
Consentiunt antiquae gentium
narrationes, sed maxime medi
terranea maris vestiqia adju-
vant sidem. Nam et cochleae
in montibus peregrinantur.
et ut nostra allingam, quod
un marinis leqi solet, succi.
num nonnunquam procul a pe-
lago, et in nostris quoque
oris effossum est. Et glosso=
l
s
la
abilacus Telandiae in sulae
mersae, Incendia cerca picum
denarisa Varenius
et quo deverent, de diluvir item causis.)