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222 signify a plot, B, a regiment of horse, L, a fleet at sea: or, secondly, by transposing the letters of the alphabet in any suspected paper, they can lay open the deepest designs of a discontented party. So for example, if I should say in a letter to a friend, Our brother Tom has just got the piles, a skilful decipherer would discover, that the same letters, which compose that sentence, may be analysed into the following words. Resist, a plot is brought home  The tour. And this is the anagrammatick method.

The professor made me great acknowledgments for communicating these observations, and promised to make honourable mention of me in his treatise. I saw nothing in this country, that could invite me to a longer continuance, and began to think of returning home to England.

HE continent, of which this kingdom is a part, extends itself, as I have reason to believe, eastward, to that unknown tract of America westward of California; and north, to the Pacifick ocean, which is not above a hundred and fifty miles from Lagado; where there is a good port, and much commerce with the great island of Luggnagg, situated to the north-