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t eeth.
"Here we are enabled, at once, to discard the 'th,' as forming no
portion of the word commencing with the first t; since, by experiment
of the entire alphabet for a letter adapted to the vacancy, we perceive
that no word can be formed of which this th can be a part. We are thus
narrowed into
t ee,
and, going through the alphabet, if necessary, as before, we arrive
at the word 'tree,' as the sole possible reading. We thus gain
another letter, r, represented by (, with the words 'the tree' in
juxtaposition.
"Looking beyond these words, for a short distance, we again see
the combination;48, and employ it by way of termination to what
immediately precedes. We have thus this arrangement:
the tree;4(ꢀ?34 the,
or, substituting the natural letters, where known, it reads thus:
the tree thrꢀ?3h the.
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