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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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itesu
pedum; tum cgitur rudera.
in duodecim pedes, quasi ur
be plus semel subversa. Inde
creta, ut vorant Hali, id est
argilla tenaa, pedum XXIV.
terreni
Tum alia rrspecies, cui
valli nomen fecere, qua molim
detectam fuisse, radices arun-
dinum et fracidi stipites, et
nami truncique, et solia ar
borum et interspersa passim
conchylia fatentur. Congesta
est haec terra soliorum seu pecti-
num instar, pluresve Limbi si.
bi superstrati noscuntur, mani-
festo inter eos terrae purae et
fracidae materiae discrimine:
sub hoc vallo, cujus altitudo
rursus est XIV. pedum, terra
est argillosa iterum, ad quatuor
pedes multo priore tenacior.
Postremo miata arenae glarea
occurrit, murmurque auditur.
ingens et fremitus velut la
bentium aquarum. Sum vero
sosior ita sesparat, ut terebrae
insidens suae, allolli promte
possit. Nec mora, dum pergit
Ferrum, ecce aqua prorumpit
es solo; lentior primum, et
mista arenae, mode tanta vi,
ut vix, retracto homine, inse-