He especially identified two: 1) a reference to salt that “loses its savor”, according to Carlson by being mixed with an adulterant, and that presupposes free-flowing salt which in turn is produced with the help of an anti-caking agent, “a modern invention” by an employee of the "Morton" Salt Company – a clue left by "Morton" Smith pointing to himself; and 2) that Smith would have identified the handwriting of the Clement letter as done by himself in the twentieth century “by forging the same eighteenth-century handwriting in another book and falsely attributing that writing to a pseudonymous twentieth-century individual named ‘"M. Madiotes"’ [Μ. Μαδιότης], whose name is a cipher pointing to Smith himself.” The M would stand for Morton, and Madiotes would be derived from the Greek verb μαδω ("madō") meaning both “to lose hair” and figuratively “to swindle” – and the bald swindler would be the balding Morton Smith.