398 THE CENTURY, 



bee omitted ; I will not trouble you with more rules 

 leaving the rest to practice.&quot; 



The preceding description is written on small oblong 

 pages, which measure Hi by 7i inches, the whole 

 surface of the unwritten portions being covered with 

 an engraved pattern, of which Fig. 1 is but a portion of 







-H- 



-H+ 



the top left-hand corner, and therefore proceeds no 

 further than letter A, which ends the application of that 

 particular figure. 



Fig. 2. Gives the next form for 8 other 

 similar situations, commencing at i. And 

 Fig. 3. Is again 8 more, commencing at r ; 

 making in all 24 characters or letters. 



We thus see how, whether by a dot, or a 

 short line of three gradations in length, an 

 entire alphabet may be obtained. 



On page 180 of &quot; The Life of the Marquis of Wor 

 cester,&quot; is the facsimile of a letter written by his 

 Lordship about 1646-7, apparently adopting this very 

 cipher. It occurs in a volume, entitled u Carte Papers, 

 1634-57. Ireland, No. 63,&quot; in the Bodleian Library. 



It is worth remarking here, that the foregoing des 

 cription, with its accompanying brass-plate engravings, 

 looks exceedingly like an instalment of his promise, 

 conveyed to us in the concluding lines of the 100th 

 Article. 



