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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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ad centum et duorum pedum
prosunditatem; postremo tri
ginta et unees sabulonis pec
des; Ubi fossio desit. Iator
Sa semel occurrit, terra quine
quies, argilla rursus quinqules
arena plus series, conchylia
semel. Credibile est olim sunc
dum maris suisse, ubi nunc
conchylia jacent ad centum
amplius pedum profundita:
tem. Huic fundo reciprocatae
inundationes, ruinaeque tot
strata argillae arenaeque in
veaere, dum interim terrae sedi
menta interiecti temporis mo-
ra nascebantur. Sic repulsum
mare cesoit ad tempus, sed
postea peris sui tenax, se se
iterum ruptis aggeribus un ter
ras infudit, sylvasque pro-
stravit, quarum nunc rainae
a sodientidus deteguntur. Na
rerum natura praestat no-
bis Historiae vicem. Historia
autem nostra hanc contra
gratiam naturae rependit,
ne praeclara ejes opera,
quae nobis adhuc patent
posteris ignorentur.