278 LETTER X. 



As I faid before, one Plan is faflicient for De- 

 cyphering by ', and the realbn why I make ufe 

 of fo many here is, to let my fentiments appear 

 in the cleared light I coald to common under- 

 ftandings. To conclude this long Article : I 

 frequently get coniiderable help by comparing a 

 cyphered Word with one of the remarkable 

 Words, mentioned and fet dov/n in Paragraph 

 the fecond : And indeed there are many more 

 Obfervations which I could eafily give -, but I 

 think it needlefs, becaufe they mull: naturally oc- 

 cur to the Thoughts of a Decypherer. 



3. I obferved, lafl: night in a News- Paper, 

 the following; rem.arkable Paracfranh, viz, " We 



O Of? 



have at l.^oulon^ in Vra'nci\ lately difcovered the 

 fccret of making the Greek Fire, which is not 

 extinguiihed by Water ; and an experiment 

 *^ has very latelv been made of it. In order to 

 *' underftand this rightly, our Reader m.uft take 

 notice, That this kind of Wild-fire was in- 

 vented by one CaUinicus^ a Grcek^ Anno Do- 

 mini 680. It v/as compofed of Charcoal, Salt, 

 Aqua-Vitas, Sulphur, Pitch, Camphire, &c, 

 boiled together, and rolled up in Balls : With 

 this combuftible matter, the Emperor Con- 

 *' JiantiiiS Pogonatus^ i. e. i::ith the great Beardy 

 '^ burnt a large Fleet of the Saracens^ which 

 '^ had blocked him up in the City of Conjlanti- 



nople ', 



