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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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dem opidi fodinis septua
ginta orgyiarum profundi.
tate Gesnero et Albino jam
olim memorata est. Et nunc
deliberandum relinguo, an
in tam humili loco natam
arborem, deinde vertenda
in saxum materia oppres
sam; un ruptis terrae vete-
ris fornicibus ea montibus
cum massa ambiente in
cavitates de volutam pute-
mus. Sencamin Olitschuus,
mineralium egreques in daga-
tor, qui apud nostros rec
metallicae consultus mon
a Batavis Gubernator sodi.
narum in Orientalem Indi-
am missus praemature oiil,
inter colleclanea sua habere
mihi significavit, lapidem
ab Augustoburgo Misniae,
quem Schlamstein vocant
quasi ex limo productum
diceres, ubi in eodem frusto
ita expressa erant duo fo
lia, ut species discerneres,
unum que quercus alterum
salicis faterere. Neque ille
verorum eoc suis arboribus