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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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consumatur; nostri leccaria o
pera vocant, ignotam antiquis
artem. Credibile est, quam cau-
sam cavernula ingemmata ha:
buit in caiquo saxo, eam
subinde ingentia antra in ip:
sis montibus produveisse sa
ne medioeria passim occurrunt
Et contingit interdum, ut tere
brae fossorum metallis insi-
stentium in caecum hujusmo-
di foramen saxo conclusum
delata, operam ludant, ne-
que enim pyrii loculi, quibus
rumpi suna solent; Tunc re-
ce adhiberentur, neque in
Hlaaiore spatio utus ratio si
bi constaret. Aliquando a-
qua intus inventa est, imo
et aperto aditu noxu non
raro halitus prodierunt. Et
scimus, ante annos non ita
multos vaporem ercexisse qui
flamma ad lucernam concer
pta, operarios faede ambussit.
Illud quoque dignum memo.
ratu Busones aliquando re
periri in profundissimis pu-
teis, ipsoque sauo, vivos qui
dem, sed adeo stupentes; ut
multorum mensium spatio
via locum mutasse depre-
hendantur.