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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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Sed illustre imprimis docu
mentum nuper vicinum
Goltinga Rostorsium. dedit,
nobilium olim Fynastanem
sedes. Rem ex Parochi, non
indocti Viri narratione huc
referre operae pretium est.
Incola loci puteum fieri cur
raverat. Primo humus con-
sueta frugifera duodecim pec
des alta perfossa est, deinde
negra eoe putresactis folus,
fibris, museo; multis referta
conchis, spatio unius pedis:
sub qua margam invenit pu-
tearius trium sere pedum alti
tudine, perviam canalibus
scaturiginosis, Huc usque
prima vice perductus est
puteus. Sed cum nuper men.
se Aprili anni supra octoge- 1b8b.
simum sexti aqua defecisset
altrus in profunde quaeritur
scaturigo. Ibi fossori iterum
effertur nigricans et graveo:
lens solum en putre factis
soliis, stipula, gramine, radi.
cumque fibris, multisque con-
chylus octonum pedum. den
sitate. Sub hoc demum, ubi
cergillosus incipit et lubri
cus fundus, in betulam of.