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I begin

I begin with giving my Reader an exact Numerical Table, of the feveral different Cy phers, as they ftand in order in the above Writing, viz.

In Writings that confift of a Hundred words or upwards, the Letter e is almost always the higheft upon the Numerical Table; fo that the safest

way is to try three or four of the highest of them thus. Though I find the Cypher o up at number forty-four, yet it cannot poffibly ftand for the Letter e, because there is not one three-lettered Word in the Writing, whofe laft Cypher is o, whereas the word the must be found more than once, or even twice, in all Writings of this length. Cypher q is highest of all upon the Numerical Table, viz. at Number forty-fix, but cannot well prove the Letter e, because there are no more than four three-lettered Words in the whole Writing that end with it, whereas the Cypher 7 is almost equal to it in Table number, as well as found at the end of fix three-lettered Words. This being thoroughly confidered, I guess the Cypher 7 to stand for the Letter e, and of course that the fixteenth cyphered Word q07 ftands for the word the: But to make ftill farther proof, I look out for a four-cyphered word which will fo far anfwer it as to ftand for the word that; and in this fearch I meet with the forty-eighth cyphered Word qo9q, concluding it to mean the aforefaid Word that. Now to demonftrate both the cyphered Words q07 and qo9q to stand for the words the and that, I find the forty-ninth cyphered Word thus qo79, fuppofing it to be the Word they; and which I am confirmed in, because the tenth cyphered Word qoǝ is no less than seven times in the Writing: And it is alfo full as cer

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tain, that though the Cypher ǝ follows the Letters t and b at those feven times, yet it cannot poffibly prove the Letter e, because in the Numerical Table it rifes no higher than to twentyfour: And fince it is not an e, it must be the Letter y of course, which makes me fufpect it to be taken out of Scripture or fome Prayer-Book; and indeed whenever I find out two Letters in a three-cyphered Word, I very carefully run over the whole Alphabet to discover the third unknown Cypher, and inspect the Numerical Table. And now the seventy-feventh cyphered Word qox67. muft confequently stand for the Word thofe, because the afore-discovered Words, viz. the, that, they, do exactly tally with it. The fifty-fourth and fiftyfifth cyphered Words x□ □x muft fignify on and no, because they confift of the fame two Cyphers differently placed: But the most frequent way to discover the Letter o, is by looking out for a twocyphered Word that begins with a t, because the other Cypher must be o. As the Word and is fo very often in all Writings, it is easily met with thus, viz. the twenty-eighth cyphered Word 905 will neceffarily mean the Word and, because it is seven times found in the Writing, and also because the two firft Cyphers of it agree with the afore-discovered Words, viz. the, that, they, thofe, on, no. Remarkable Cyphered Words are the seventy-ninth and the hundredth and fifth, viz. bogii and 911, which plainly fhow themselves

to be the Words fhall and all, efpecially if we compare the s and the b in them, with those of the afore-discovered Words. N. B. That as foon as I can discover the Word the, I immediately write it down upon a fair Paper, setting down after it the other decyphered Words, as fast as I can find them out, on purpose to view them all at once in the following manner, viz. 907, 9099, 907, qoxb7, ×□, □×, 905, bo911, the, that, they, those, on, no, and, shall, 911. all.

I very rarely get above five Letters to begin with, but having now beyond expectation gained ten, viz. t, b, e, a, n, d, o, y, s, l, I place them under their several Cyphers, just as they come to hand, in the following Plan, viz.

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