"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‡‡†