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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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ingens massa succini eruta
est in villa praefecturae Blui
me nau, non longe ab Hanto-
vera, tempore Johariderici
Ducis. Circa Gartoviam, Illustris
Bernstorsii Ministri status
nostri Primarii oppidum, fre-
quentius succinum in. paludo:
sa ibi regione sodientibus oc-
currit, et varia indé parata,
ac inter caetera vasculum
satis amplum admiratus est
Eccardus.
AXVIII: ed caetera ingentium De mutationibus terrarum per flumina
naturae mutationum vesti-
gia non nihil tangamus, ha
bitatoribus fortasse antiqui
ora. Regytum Milo, Are
latensem agrum Rhodano de
beri Aristoteles et Seireshius
credunt. Sannius Suataviam
munus esse Boreae Rhenique
Certe flumina materiam ad.
vehentia spoliant superiores
terras, Frisiique quotidie no-
stris detrimentis ditantur.
Nec jam dico de insulis
natis, qualem sub Leone Jco.
nomache supra memoravimus,
horribili terrae motu incendio.
que crupisse; nec de fretis a
et de ruinarum ingentium apud nos vestigus.
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