The Cipher
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follow me in the trust regard well this secret writing, made for the confusion of the curious but to the preservation of our secret. Bear ever in mind that not all that is shows on the surface of even simple words. The cipher of my Grandfather devised by Fr. Bacon now High Chancellor of England has many mouths, all of which may speak if there be aught to say.
"Bernardino de Escoban."
"4, July, 1620."
In addition to the cipher narrative I found on close examination that there was a separate cipher running through the marginal notes on the earlier of the printed pages. When translated it ran as follows:
"Cave mouthe northe of outer rock one degree and half North of East. Reef lies from shore point three and half degrees South of South East."
