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Restoring the transposed letters to their proper places, we have the following sentence:—

Altissimum planetam tergeminum observavi.

(I have observed the most distant planet to be threefold.)

PERSIAN RIDDLES.

Between a thick-set hedge of bones,

A small red dog now barks, now moans.

“A human tongue!”

The answer rung,—

A soul above it,