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"Now, if, in place of the unknown characters, we leave blank spaces, or
substitute dots, we read thus:
the tree thr...h the,
when the word 'through' makes itself evident at once. But this
discovery gives us three new letters, o, u and g, represented by
ꢀ
? and 3.
"Looking now, narrowly, through the cipher for combinations of known
characters, we find, not very far from the beginning, this arrangement,
8
3(88, or egree,
which, plainly, is the conclusion of the word 'degree,' and gives us
another letter, d, represented by ꢀ.
"Four letters beyond the word 'degree,' we perceive the combination
;
46(;88.
"
Translating the known characters, and representing the unknown by dots,
as before, we read thus: th rtee. an arrangement immediately suggestive
of the word 'thirteen,' and again furnishing us with two new characters,
i and n, represented by 6 and *.
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