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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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Ligni. Porfae autem non terra
est, sed materiae vegetabilis
colluvies, forte ex erica mus
co, gramine, radicibus arun-
dinibus que terrae paludosae
postremo siccatis longissimo
tempore concreta. Nec video,
cur sulphur et bitumen
huic magis, quam caeteris
soci alimentis inesse necesse
sit; Et si aliquibus speciebus
admista esse possint. Torsae
artificialis genus coriariis
ex corlicum quernorum relir
quiis domi suae naseitur. Vix
apuo nos hominis altitudinem
eacedit, ustilis materiae stratum;
Eacisam renasci nondum com–
pertum, et si aquae advehant
in vicinis Locis jam natam.
Muggenbergae in Minia ad
negrae aqua rivum quarta
orquia venam ferri dedit.
eaque perfracta apparuit
ustilis cespes. Chaucipra
Aeri, Frisii, Cimbri, Belgae
Picardi, Sursa utuntur
nec in Anglia deesse audio;
non magis quam sud eu ob
rutas arbores, quas ibi