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# Title: Leibnitii Protogaea. Concept und Collectanea dazu, nebst einer von Leibniz corrigierten Reinschrift. (shelfmarks Ms XXIII, 23a; MS XXIII, 23a)
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ex locis qui arserant, sogncola mento
judicat, nec in sicitia tantum et Campania
sed etiam in Germania constat reperiri–
Ipse Agricola apud Morellae confluentes
falia a
aut
et Grani Aquas aynoscit Naphithae aut
bituminis liquidi fontes etiam apus nos
quale est,
ftuunt; ut prope Burgdorfium, quos
rustici in axungiam absumunt farsisse
hostractus Agricola (crecto post Corsum
nostratem non dubitarit. Nam cum
Belomniten, quom aliqui lynarium vocant
Leinai
in rpa u
Neapolin ojidumod
Sopedum Neustat
cim ab Hlannovora passuum millibus
et in Brunsvicensi tractu, ubi bitumen
gignitur; et polissimum inter urbem Hil
Hildesiam
decimum et arcem Marieburgum in
marmore antri quod ananis appellant
reperiri dixisset; hunc locum inquit ar-
sisse multa indicant. Idem mox repo
tit, cum Ostraciter, ita dictum a tecta
similitusine, circa idem Hildeshoimi
antrum reperin nanasset, cui consen.
sit, quod superius annotaverat: Na-
tura, inquit, ex estraaite in Hildeshei-
mio tractu interantrum et characram
facit haematiten, ars ex magnete utraque
urendo.
Si quis tamen coctilo naturae saxrem
aegnus admissurus matit limum prisces
obvolventem vel ipso tempore ex natura