what you are looking at his is joseph stansberry's cipher, and it is very simple. it is a is equal to z, b is equal to a. it is a one letter shift. joseph stansberry is the person in philadelphia who received a message from benedict arnold who wrote them into cipher and codes and they were brought across new jersey by two different methods, brought here to new york or could they were given to the reverend jonathan odell who then decoded the messages and then turned them into british headquarters right here at one of broadway. they also use both codes. blackstone's commentaries on the laws of england, and if you notice it says fifth oxford edition. it is very important that the two people sending encoding and decoding the messages are using the same edition. otherwise you find out you put down the word alone and they are reading it as pallone. so you have got to use the same edition. the first number is usually the page in the second number is the line, and the third number is the word. so, 4598 would mean to go to page 45, go down to line nine, go over to word a an