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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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passibus manente latitudine contrahitur
altitudo, ubi pronum incedere oportet. Inde
rursus aperitur, mox donuo contrahitur lones
postremo adangustias ventum est, ubi velut
stinae concretae, sestongius ropore non placu.
it, Nihil enim ultra magnopere visendum
offerri ajebant ductores, sed sub ampli
ore fornice adrotundum foramen pervoniri
per quod in laxius ilerem spatium aditus
detur, ibi specus terminum esso porro in
toto antro multa sunt saconem fraymina
tenui erusta obducta. si fasias sub pri-
motimo occurrit marga, in mollem la-
octanum
duodonur
pidem indurata octo aut duoderm.
pollicrem strato. Subtus forra estnigra,
plonagnon tantum fragminibus margae ac
fornicis, sed et multis animatium ossibus
raptis quidom fori aut disjectis, sec ut
partem corporis facile distinguas. Dontes
quoque multiplices varii coloris et saepenitidi
et non raro portionibus maxillarum inserti
aliqui tantae magnitudinis ut ad nota nobie
animatia referri non possint, sub terra
nigra flavus est limus, se Possium expers
et subtus saxum quod inquirontium curio–
sitatem finivit, in hoc timo novisrimo ipre
visi matoriam alumini plumoso similem
quam incolae Stenomargam appellant
aii par quiddlam in minerarum quarundam
ustionibus attolli dictum est, facillime n
pulvirem abit fricando. Caeterum vix
quinquaginta annos esre ausio, quod antrum
Scharz.