...two, and, therefore, he must raise two torches on the left, so that the receiver may know that he has to consult the second tablet. He will now raise five...device enables any news to be definitely conveyed. 47. Many torches, of course, are required, as the signal for each letter is a double one. But if all...

...will now raise five torches on the right, to indicate that it is kappa, this being the fifth letter of the second division, and the receiver of the signal...as rho belongs to the fourth division, and then two to the right, rho being the second letter in this division. The receiver writes down rho and so forth....

...conveyed. Having jotted this down on a -writing-tablet he -will communicate it by the torches as follows: The first letter is kappa. This being in the second...division. The receiver writes down rho and so forth." Nearly 2000 years after Polybius, in 1753, an unknown Scottish inventor, writing in the Scots 'Magazine...

...will now raise five torches on the right, to indicate that it is kappa, this being the fifth letter of the second division, and the receiver of the signal...as rho belongs to the fourth division, and then two to the right, rho being the second letter in this division. The receiver writes down rho and so forth....