The Gold-Bug: Simplified For Modern Readers (Accelerated ...

"Four letters beyond the word 'degree,' we see the combination;46(;88. "Translating the known characters, and representing the unknown by dots, as before, we read thus: th.rtee, an arrangement immediately suggesting the word 'thirteen,' and again providing us with two new characters, i . and . n, represented by . 6. and *. ................
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