letters, in which the more secret text is written, were found singly interspersed, it has been found necessary to clothe this sentence also in Mutual Transposition.  Thus the whole series is uniform, and, if a person happen to discover the interpretation of the sentence involved by simple Transposition, he may easily be led to believe that the other four or eight intercalary letters, which belong to the more secret text, are Non-significant and have been interspersed simply for the purpose of covering the secret.  This much being said by way of preface, let us now turn to the first table, in which, on the basis of four consonants, F,G,Q, and X, sixteen letters, the Power of which is to be transfused into these four consonants, there standing by themselves are found distributed in four quaternions.  The numbers, 3,4,5, and 6, which in each quaternion are written over the letters, supply the Key.  The use and method of application consist herein:  First, write some secret text, which you design to be the one principally to be hidden and concealed; as, for example, let the text be Expende, which must here be written Ecspende.  Then on a second piece of paper put down another sentence, and transpose this by simple Transposition, in accordance with the alphabet at the bottom.  Thus, for example, we will take Omnium rerum vicissitude.  This done, look in the table for the letter E of the more important secret, and for it you will find the consonant G.  Then look for C and you will likewise find the consonant G(?).  After that, look for S, and the consonant Q will appear.  Finally, look for P, and you will have X.  And continue thus with the other letters.  Now inasmuch as each of these four consonants, F,G, Q and X, claims the Power of all four of the letters written beneath, the key, or number, indicates in each of the four cases how many letters of the transposed secret should be placed before the consonant of the more important secret.  Thus, if you now wish to write in hidden writing the word Ecspende, put first, on the basis of the letter E, three letters of the transposed sentence, and let the consonant G follow.  Then, on the basis of the next letter C, put first six letters, also taken from the transposed sentence, and again let the consonant G follow.  Finally, on the basis of S, put four letters first, followed by the consonant Q. And continue thus until the following form of both secrets appears:

Cabgtlaereglaltqothhtixlpcgerhdtqotmhltqbrag.

As respects the second table, let us first look at the table itself, and then explain its use.  We find here two orders, distinguished as the order of equal letters and the order of unequal letters, the number of  all the letters being sixteen.  The letters are called equal or unequal on this basis:  The unequal letters are found, in the order of the shortened alphabet, under the unequal numbers; that is 1, 3,5,7,9,11,13,15.  The equal letters are written under the equal numbers that is 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16.  The capital letters, both equal and unequal, supply the key.  The eight consonants written in each order on the basis of Transposition, as F,G,K,Q,X,Y,Z, and the sign & 9for which we Germans may substitute the letter W), alone belongs to the more secret writing, the other letters being excluded therefrom.  The remaining small letters belong to the more secret sentence which was to be transposed.  The method of using is this:  Select a secret text, such as Ecspende singula bene, and an open secret, which it matter not if one discover.  This letter, -- for example, Omnium rerum vicissitude: respicias finem, - - transpose.  Now look first for the letter E.  The table indicates that for E must be written the sign &.  But preceding this sign we must write other letters from among those of the open secret, or , rather, sentence transposed by simple method, and these we must continue to write till there occur one of the capitals found in the order of equal letters:  --of equal letters, for in the order of unequal letters this sign denotes the letter E.  When we have written this capital letter, the consonant of the more secret text should immediately follow.  Employ this process until you have completed both texts, and you will have the following form:

Cab&tlymerelfusl&txothshitilfpegextghkxitkotmbqlxtbarxaix.