"Gold Bug" Cipher:
a good glass in the bishops hostel in the devils seat twenty one degrees and thirteen minutes northeast and by north main branch seventh limb east side shoot from the left eye of the deaths head a beeline from the tree through the shot out fifty one
What we have called the "Gold Bug" cipher was written by Edgar Allen Poe in his short story "The Gold Bug." It's a fun tale in which the protagonist works out the cipher above using frequency analysis. It's considered (by many cryptologists) to be the best fictional cryptological story ever written.