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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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ANI. Et vero phocarum et Nar: LCur in antris his ossa animalium marinorum
Wallorum greges stabulari si
mul constat in cavitatibus
litoralium scopulorum, qua
lia esse potuerunt haec antra,
quo tempore huc Oceanus per-
veniebat. Cum vero terrestri.
um quoque animantium spo
lia deprehendantur; malim
Conringio assentiente vastae
inundationes colluviem credere,
quando aquae per anqusta fora
mina et specuum exitus adi-
tum un subterranea reperientes
quae advehebant, descrvere in
vestibalis. Verisimillimum enim
est orbem aquis mersum natu-
raliter detégi non potuisse.
nisi magna parte humoris
subterraneis locis recepta; qualis
erat in Hrerapoli Syriae hia-
tus immensae profunditatis
apud Lucianum de dea syria,
in quem stato anni die vici
nae gentes certatim aquam
quasi impletura frustra fun-
debant. In quo diluoii aquas
absorptas narrabant sacerdo.
tes, et populi credetant.
L. Cum cornua Monocer, de cornu monocerotis et ingenti
rotis, quibus passim superbie
et terrestrium commiata reperiantur.
animali Quedlinburgi effofso.