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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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Ex eo ossa ac dentes tota Ger-
mania in usum medicum cir.
cumferuntur; sed dum quisque
pro arbitrio sodit, jam fere ea
haustam intelligo angusto in
spatio materiam curiositatis.
NVuL Scharzfelda porro Rescriptio antri umana
in Hartica nostras valles
ingressi ad Luderi montem
venimus, quod oppidum est
Sodinarum haud expers. Suit
olim sedes Comitibus pro-
priis, quos nostra Historia
non silebit. Eligerodae per-
noctavimus. Postera die Brun-
lagam itum, ubi ferri minera
eliquatur, atque inde ad lo-
cum Rubeland. Ibi est Bu-
manni specus, quam nil so-
lis egentes vesperi ingressi
sumus. Prope Rubeland rur
dera spectantur veteris arcis
Bercheselt, quae viciniam olim
infestam habebat. Sunt et ser
rariae ibi, omnia Guelsebytani
iris. S’ost quae in edito
monte antrum est Dumanni
dictum, a primo exploratore;
ferri venas quaerente, quem
extincta lampade post aliquot
dierum errorem egressum non
diue superviaeisse ajunt. Et si
alii alia narrent. Ubi montem
et in eo contentorum: