Chapter 51

“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 *. “Referring, now, to the beginning of the cryptograph, we find the combination, 53‡‡†. “Translating as before, we obtain good, which assures us that the first …