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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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# Lines: 33 recognised, mean confidence 0.98
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gressus est ulnarum circiter
quinque altitudine, latitudine
quindecims
trium et semis. Per  pedes
recta descenditur: ibi velut
atrium est, quod porro in mon-
tem ducit. Limo nigricante
vel fusco intectum est solum,
et in eo paululum progres
sis foramen occurrit, en su-
periore loco aerem admittens
seraginta ultra passibus ma-
nente latitudine contrahi.
tur altitudo, ubi pronum
incedere oportet. Inde rur.
sus aperitur, mox denuo
contrahitur locus. Postre
mo ad angustias ventum
est, ubi velut stiriae concre-
La, sed longius repere non
placuit. Nihil enim ultra
magnoxere visendum. osser
ri aiebant ductores, sed
sub ampliore fornice ad
rotundum foramen perve
neri, per quod un laxius
iterum spatium aditus de-
tur, ibi specus terminum
esse. Forro in toto antro
multa sunt saxorum frag
mina tenui crusta obducta
Si fodias suo primo limo
occurrit marga, un mollem