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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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regione Herciniae, sed loco
multum inferiore, Cellerfelda,
oppidi metallariis habitati,
incendium ante aliquot an.
nos ex Hamburgi propugna
culis noctu visum accepi-
mus.
III. Metaila autem non in Metaliorum in terra situs, venarumque
ipso Bructero licet mine
ralium rerum haud exper
in
te; sed mediocribus Hercyniae
rugis; aliqua et sub pedibus
montium sodiuntur. Tantaque
eorum copia est, quantam ali
bi vix hodie monstres uno
loco nostri continentis. Nam
vel plumbi nigri solius in-
tra leucae Germanie spatium,
quotannis incredidilis copia
ea venae materia eliquatur.
Vena est velut folium quod
dam sive stratum subterra
longe la teque procurrens,
crassitiei medioeris, in quo
peculiare genus terrae, sadei,
aut metalli, at ambientibus
 melius quam
divisum. nec
Conicarum sectionum simili-
tudine illustratur. Nam quae
nostris venae pendentes dicuntur,
descriptio et explicatio.)