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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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tem esse, idemque iuata
Alseldam notari. Et longe
altiore. loco, prope Grundam
opidum metallicolarum ea
adverso obergi monte Her-
cinca nostiae, unde praestan-
tissima ferri minera eruitur,
velut scopulus quidam (dictus
Hupsienstein:) se se attollit,
ea spathi genere(: quale et
Baumanni specus componit)
in quo varia concreta conchi
lia visuntur, sed idem ei in omnibus fere l latomiie nosris, lapi–
tota Europa deprehendi con-
stat. et Pigueroa Legatus Hi.
spanus ad Schachabassum
Persam Ormusio veniens, in
eoccelsis Caramaniae monti-
bus Ostrea, et durissime coe
mento insertas velut suae
Galloeceae conchas miratus
est; nec dubitavit vesligia
maris sateri. Sed eadem jam
dudum veteres dixere neque
hujus loci est compilare
pervulgata. Praestat rem
ipsam intueri et manifesta
sepulti animalis argumenta
agnoscere.
II. Primo igitur aspectu
passim summa similitudo
se prodit, color lineamenta;
dis praesertim calcarii et passim
Varia conchyliorum genera mire permista
in saxo et glarea non esse nata, forma non
mutata et situs ipse ostendit.