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then presents 25. other lines of letters, not in any regular series,
but jumbled, & without order or meaning, copy any one of them in
the letter to your correspondent, when he receives it, he takes his
cylinder and arranges the wheels so as to present the same
jumbled letters in the same order in one line, he then fixes them
with his screw, and examines the other 25. lines and finds one of
them presenting him these letters: "yourfavorofthe 22isreceive d."
which he writes down, as the others will be jumbled & have no
meaning, he cannot mistake the true one intended, so proceed
with every other portion of the letter, numbers had better be
represented by letters with dots over them; as for instance by the
6. vowels & 4. liquids, because if the periphery were divided into
36. instead of 26. lines for the numerical, as well as alphabetical
characters,