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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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auri colore en nostro Lauen
steinui tractu eruitur, qu’esi
jam ignem naturae expertum
etsi nobis apyron dicatur. Nec
absurdum est, privata incen-
dia etiam magno diluvio po
steriora extitisse, ignota anna
libus, cum materia combusti
lis adhuc per terram uberius
disseminata esset. Pumices esse
ed locis, qui arserunt, Agricola
merito judicat, nec in sicilia
tantum et Campania, sedetio
am in Germania constat repet
riri. Ipse Agricola apud Mo-
sellae confluentes et Grani
aquas talia agnoscit. Naphtae
autem aut biluminis liquidi
fontes etiam apud nos fluunt;
quale est prope Burgeorfsium,
quod rustici in axungiam ab.
sumunt. Arsisse hos tractus
Agricola J: credo post Cordum
nostratem:) non dubitavit.
Nam cum Selemniten, quem
aliqui lyncurium vocant in
ripa Leinae amnis ad Neupo-
lin, opidum duodecim ab
Hannovera passuum millibus,
et in Prunsvicensi tractu,
ubi bitumen gignitur; et
potissimum inter urbem Hib