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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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m
pisse terris, unoque impetu
totam hanc inferiorem Ger-
maniam invecta materia
obruisse; quam cum ea al
tiore loco venisse necesse sit,
crediderim promontorium ali-
quod aut naturales aggeres
esc argilla mari objectos, et
tandem perfractos huc in
cubuisse ().
AL.I. Cum Amstelodami Enumeratio stratorum terrae Amstelodum
aliquando puteus foderetur
ad ducentorum et triginta
duorum pedum profundita.
tem, hae species terrarum
ordine oblatae sunt: Hor-
tensis terrae pedes septem,
torfa novem argillae novem
arena octo, terrae quatuor
argilla decem, terrae rursus
quatuor, arenae, super qua
domus illic sistucantur, pedes
decem, argillae duo, sabulonis
albi quatuor, siccae terrae
quinque, turbidae unus, are-
nae quatuordeum, argillae
arenariae tres, arenae cum
argilla miatae quinque arenae
marinis conchyluis minetae
quatuor. Tum fundus argillae
in patei fossione obserdata.
e
ima vo
docuere propestrunces ingentia ossa belluatum
tnua cervina et capita homi
prosternentis testesesant.
Avicantem contracium in molo dicti Caralis fundo appatuit, uditranci
adhuc s
ibi deje
sua infixa et a
laet dif
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marinarum, pyrites ec
petteracta ditudu oara mper