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Book Five |
Ch. 8. 189 |
The letters written along the circumference constitute the Particular Transpositive alphabet. In the middle of this spider’s web is to be fixed a wing, or movable index, ( for the letters of this alphabet are not written in alphabetical order), shall correspond thereto. Let the point, or apex of the index indicate the letter of the circumference which constitutes the second Transpositive letter. If, now, being instructed in these matters, you address yourself to the act of writing, set down first the letter of the wing, and then join immediately thereto the other letter, that, namely, of the circumference, and in this way you will easily write out the secret in full.
But should you prefer to use the square figures, the same is herewith presented:

As before, it will not be profitless to describe in few words that method of using a table thus arranged. The perpendicular column of letters at the left records the letters of the General alphabet; each letter of which alphabet is repeated in the little squares, alongside the Particular alphabets, twenty-four times.