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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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Dructeros et Moninos uritur
se seque ad domum fluvium ex
tendit, plerumque in aperto est.
Nec abhorreo a probabili con-
jectura inundationum esse soe-
tume Tempe semi siccato post
aquarum illuvium solo, tenuis
erisae rudimenta velut velu
tum increvere. Mox nova
inundatio, novique limi subti-
le sedimentum, rursusque in
hoc ericae novae stamina ducta;
donec post multus annorum
vicissitudines, in praesentem
crussitiem ustilis cespes au
geretur. cessantibus tandem
incrementis, ea quo flumina
sibi viam magis magisque ex
cavantia, aliquando et coerci.
la humano ladore, certiore
jam alveo fluere coepere Con
firmant Hypothesin plaggae,
id est superior terrae crusta a
nostris West falisque ruricolis
denudato satulo ericetorum
abscissa, partim ad agrosste-
riles ut cunque emendandos,
partim in foci usum. Iaque
ustilis est ericae superficies,
ob terram plantulis herbescen-