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# Title: LBr. 915 · Tentzel
# Folio 104v, page id DE-611-HS-867437:0208
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adferamque novum de Numismatibus Moguntinis Schediasma,
quod  nudius quartus  eminentis. Electore Mo
guntinum abs me missum, qui crastino die ad invisendum sere,
nissimum Principe meum huc excurret.
Caeterum cuilibet liberrimum perniitto, statuendi de El
phanto nostro, quidquid voluerit. Postulo tamen mihi vicissim
tertatem, assensum aliis tamdiu negandi, donec ostendant anima
marinum, cui tanta aequalitate conveniant reliquiae Tonnenses,
quanta elephanto  convenire monstrani. Magnam nos premere
ignorantiam rerum veteris mundi, fateor, sed apud omnes in con
fesso esse puto, nullan anim alium speciem periisse. Al vix erit
marinum anmal, cujus non exstet aliqua descriptio: nec inter
ea vilum invenitur quadrupes tanta magnitudinis formaque,
ut elephantum nostrum exaequet. Atlanticam Platenis haud
ignosas a Rudberkio de Suecia exponi: sed perierit illa omnino,
nulla tamen animalium species interiit. Si Hippopotamum non
intellexisti nuper, alios boues marinos alleges, necesse est; neque
probat illos elephantum in Italia appellatio, quos boves
lucas dixerunt. Porro ut non diffiteor, globum nostrum ma
gnas passum mutationes, ita Germaniam nostram is prouini
ciis, quae tantis spatiis a mari sunt remotae, cujusmodi cThuri
gia est, mari post magnum diluvium mersas vaquam fuisse
insigne postulatum est. Argumentum de altitudine regionum no