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By the process of elimination we get the following four primaries:

The process of confrontation of the corresponding points of these four figures (according to rule 2) gives the following four secondaries:

By confrontation of the points of each secondary with those of its corresponding primary, the following four fresh figures are obtained:

Fig. 9, confronted with Fig. 10 gives a thirteenth figure

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And Fig. 11 confronted with Fig. 12, a fourteenth

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Figures 13 and 14, similarly treated, yield a fifteenth figure

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Which, in its turn, confronted with Fig. 1, gives a sixteenth and last figure,

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Completing the scheme, which shows the result of the operation as follows:

treasure; whereat he redoubled in wrath, and yet more when it was certified to him that the lad was alive