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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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N.
volentibus et crania et ma
rillas inferiores belluarum,
cum insertis dentibus, ut pe
nitus tollatur error de den-
tibus exterra natis. Addit
talia ossa interdum et rapida
vi Leince fluvii egesta esse.
Itaque nihil prohibet peregri
na animalia ad nos unda-
rum vi advectu esse, quanquam
Elephanti dentibus minus fidin;
nam ad Rosmarum refirri
posse, paulo ante judicavi.
uales forte fuerint, quos apud
Mexieum effossos tradunt, cum
nulli hodie in America Ele
phanti deprehendantur. Idem
de ponderosis illis dentibus
diverim, qui ad Elephantum
referuntur. Moschis Mammo:
te hoos dici, qua si belluarum
ossa, Witsenius tradit. Nec
tamen obstinate abnuerim,
vera Elephantorum ossa re
periri. Certe velut partem
Sibiae ea Scharz felsae antro
vidi. Sive olim latius sparsa
per orbem fuerint haec ani
malia quam hodie, mutata
aut ipsorum aut soli natura
sive aquarum impetu longissi.
me a patria abrepta credamus.