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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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terrae, luctante spiritu, super
siciem varie intremuisse, unde
illi mox indurescenti primae
va inaequalitas; neque etiam
diffitear, firmatis licet rebus
terrae motu aliquando, vel
ignivoma eruclatione, monti-
culum factum. Sed ut vastis
sima Alpes ex solida iam ter
ra, cruptione surrexerint,
minus consentaneum puto.
Scimus tumen et in illis depre-
hendi reliquias maris. Cum
ergo alterutrum factum opor.
teat, crebitilius multo arbii
tror, defluaisse aquas spon-
taneo nisit, quam ingentem
terrarum partem incredibili
violentia tam alte ascendisse.
ILL. Hague, ut caeterae apud (conchylia marina in nostra regione et alibi
nos Oceani vestigia prosequa
mur, dicendum est de conchy.
lus, quibus passim et nostra
sara implentur. Jam olim
Valerius Cordus, insignis Me-
dicus Porunsvicensium et
Hildesiensium, a quo pluri-
ma accepit Agricola de nostris
fossilibus, in Tannoverae, et
potissimum Hildesi Lalomiis
et puteis, fossisque ipsis et
cellis observavit rem frequon
passim inveniuntur: