"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 [dagger].
"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[double dagger][double dagger][dagger].