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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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pruebenhagii extremo, qua
eoe Brunsvicensibus ad Phu-
ringos tenditur, un monte
ara est Scharfelda Comiti-
bus propriis olim habitata
historiae nostrae memorandis
Collis assurgit in vicinca
ubi vivo saxa, velut tem-
plum incisum. Inter collem
et arcem alius stat collit
paula minor, in quo antrum
est, quod incolae a nanis ap.
pellant. Credo, quod homini
non pymaeo intus rependum
est: et vulgi fabulis cantio-
nibus que antiquis memoran-
tur homunculi in accesois
montium cavernis habitantes,
immensarum opum custodes,
qualis Nibelungus nomina
tur in carmine quo sifridus
Corneus Wangionum Regis, si
credimus, filius celebratur.
Thoramen est in latere collis,
qua villam Schar seld respi-
cit, quo si oculos vertas, destra
Herzbergam. laeva Scharz sel
sam arcem habebis, et dua
longe dissita castella prospi-
cies in montibus gemellis, qui
Germanis dicuntur Gleichen,
id est pares. Porro antri in-
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