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The Runic Writing Exercises the Professor

           "Firstofallwemustfindoutthekeytothiscipher;thatcannotbedifficult."

           AtthesewordsIquicklyraisedmyhead;butmyunclewentonsoliloquising.

           "There’snothingeasier.Inthisdocumentthereareahundredandthirty-twoletters,viz.,seventy-sevenconsonantsandfifty-fivevowels.Thisistheproportionfoundinsouthernlanguages,whilstnortherntonguesaremuchricherinconsonants;thereforethisisinasouthernlanguage."

           Thesewereveryfairconclusions,Ithought.

           "Butwhatlanguageisit?"

           HereIlookedforadisplayoflearning,butImetinsteadwithprofoundanalysis.

           "ThisSaknussemm,"hewenton,"wasaverywell-informedman;nowsincehewasnotwritinginhisownmothertongue,hewouldnaturallyselectthatwhichwascurrentlyadoptedbythechoicespiritsofthesixteenthcentury;ImeanLatin.IfIammistaken,IcanbuttrySpanish,French,Italian,Greek,orHebrew.ButthesavantsofthesixteenthcenturygenerallywroteinLatin.Iamthereforeentitledtopronouncethis,àpriori,tobeLatin.ItisLatin."

           Ijumpedupinmychair.MyLatinmemoriesroseinrevoltagainstthenotionthatthesebarbarouswordscouldbelongtothesweetlanguageofVirgil.

           "Yes,itisLatin,"myunclewenton;"butitisLatinconfusedandindisorder;"pertubataseuinordinata,asEuclidhasit."

           "Verywell,"thoughtI,"ifyoucanbringorderoutofthatconfusion,mydearuncle,youareacleverman."

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