Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6789

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945 (473r)
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> Letters from the Hebrew and Algonquin alphabets. The long string of letters from the Algonquin alphabet spells out the sentence: 'In the beginning god made heaven and'. To read the two shorter strings, the names of Thomas Harriot and Walter Warner, the page must be turned through 90 </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> [tomas haryots]
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