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Attention may be called to a system of secret writing called ฤๅษีแปลงสาร. The hermit metamorphosing letters. — This is simply writing any given text backwards.

(๑) ลิตขิรศอิทไ้ ฤนลบา
งงฟถี่นวท่วข่ารสา มนุ่หน้าหเ
(๑) ลิขิตอิศรไท้ นฤบาล
ฟงงถี่ท่วนข่าวสาร หนุ่มเหน้า.

A system of secret writing which is of courser of universal application and which is known in Siam as ไทยนับสาม counting by three, and ไทยนับห้า counting by five, is the following:—

It is the same when we divide

19 letters in 13
17 " " 6
26 " " 9

or counting five

19 letters in 4
21 " " 17
14 " " 3

The following may serve as examples:—

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