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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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et veram magnitudinem, et
commesurationes partium.
et squamas, et caetera omnia
statim fatebere. Accedit ma-
gnum argumentum ab ipsa
constitutione loci. Nam
venam ardosu pisciferi pen-
dentem esse diximus, ut
cum nostris fossoribus lo-
quar; id est in strati prope
horizontalis modum procur
rentem per aliquot miliaria,
ut jam facile appareat, ejus
dem stagni pisces a super-
incumbente mole pressos.
Certe in vicino Islebiae agro
insignes lacus nune quoque
eatant. Et quo minus marinos
in petra pisces merere, non
procul abest sceburgum, ubi
ingens aqua salsa stagnum;
et sub terra esse conditoria
salis, fontes aquarum sul
sarum docent; ea quibus il
lustris inprimis est, quem
Iala saxonum octavo ab
Olebia lapide fundit, quem
Cattis olim et Hermunduris
materiam bellandi quidam
putarunt.
L Hinc iam intelligas
duplicem, ut ita dicum, apud
de variis terrae stratis, eorum situ et de
origine salium aquarumque salsarum: