"Here is a series of one hundred and thirty-two letters in apparent disorder.

There are words consisting of consonants only, as _nrrlls;_ others, on the other hand, in which vowels predominate, as for instance the fifth, _uneeief,_ or the last but one, _oseibo_.

Now this arrangement has evidently not been premeditated; it has arisen mathematically in obedience to the unknown law which has ruled in the succession of these letters.

It appears to me a certainty that the original sentence was written in a proper manner, and afterwards distorted by a law which we have yet to discover.

Whoever possesses the key of this cipher will read it with fluency.