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..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,

83(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 *.
"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 letter is A, and that the first two
words are 'A good.'
"It is now time that we arrange our key, as far as discovered, in a
tabular form, to avoid confusion.


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