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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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Capsorum vestigia fuisse
dubitabat. Hunc acceperat
ab Ephippio vetere (Allen
Sattel) loco Bohemiae, ubi
etiam non procul Egra flu
nune integri arborum trun-
ci un sadeum versi dete
guntur. De Ebeno fossili
nostrate jam Cordus Agri.
eolae retulerat, Hildesheimi
intra terram aluminosam
esse lignum in lapidem
mulatum, idque in saaei
commissuris reperiri. Idem
habet in eadem terra alui
minosa lignum quernum petre
factum. Addit e regione arcis
Marreburgae collem esse ple-
num lapideis trabibus, qua
rum capita interdum emi-
nent. Esse vero perlongas acer
vatim positas, inque medio
earum terram colore nigrum.
de quibus tamen ego nil pro-
nentiare audeo, re nondum
satis excussa. Agricola ad
saxcum: genus inclinat. Con
ringeus, eos qui coram inspe-
xere lignis potius ascripsisse
refert, quod addit Agricola,
ferro aut alio lapide per