Thomas Garrik was alive in 1795, in the county of Fife, in the 108th year of his age. He still possessed great vigour; and was celebrated on account of his extraordinary appetite. For twenty years he had never been confined to his bed by sickness.

In 1798 there was living a man at Tacony, near Philadelphia, named R. Glen, a shoemaker, in the 114th year of his age. He was a Scotsman, had seen William III., enjoyed the perfect use of his sight and memory, ate and drank with a keen appetite, had a good digestion, laboured the whole week, and on Sunday walked to the church at Philadelphia. His third wife was still alive; she was thirty years of age, and seemed perfectly satisfied with the behaviour of her husband.

A certain Baron Baravicino de Capallis died in 1776, at Meran, in the Tyrol, at the age of 104. He had been married to four wives: the first he married in his 14th, and the last in his 84th year. By his fourth wife he had seven children, and when he died she was big with the eighth. The vigour of his body and mind did not forsake him till the last months of his life. He never used spectacles; and, when at a great age, would frequently walk a couple of miles. His usual food was eggs; he never tasted boiled flesh; sometimes he ate a little roasted, but always in very small quantity; and he drank abundance of tea, with rosa solis and sugar candy.

Anthony Senish, a farmer, in the village of Puy, in Limoges, died in 1770, in the 111th year of his age.

years before his death his eyes and memory began to fail; but his hearing and senses continued sound to the last. In his 152nd year his fame had reached London; and as the king was desirous of seeing so great a rarity, he was induced to undertake a journey thither. This, in all probability, shortened his existence, which he otherwise might have preserved some years longer; for he was treated at Court in so royal a manner, and his mode of living was so totally changed, that he died soon after, at London, in 1635. He was 152 years and nine months old, and had lived under nine kings of England.

What was most remarkable in regard to old Parr is, that when his body was opened by Dr. Harvey, his bowels were found to be in the most perfect state, nor were the least symptoms of decay to be discovered in them. His cartilages were not even ossified, as is the case in all old people. The smallest cause of death had not yet settled in his body; and he died merely of a plethora, because he had been too hospitably entertained. Thus Parr is a proof that, in many families, a constitution so favourable to longevity may transmit a remarkably good stamen vita. His great grandson died at Cork, some thirty or forty years ago, at the age of 103.

The history of Drakenburg, the Dane, is nearly an instance of the same kind. This individual was born in 1626, served as a seaman in the royal navy till the 91st year of his age, and spent fifteen years of his life as a slave in Turkey, and in the greatest misery. When he was 111, and had settled, to enjoy tranquil

withstood that period, attains to a strength of constitution, a kind of insensibility to fatigue and the causes of disease; by custom, noxious effluvia, and the poison of disorders become less prejudicial: and he acquires more indifference for the scenes of woe, and the miseries, the consequences of moral evil, which his business condemns him to be a daily spectator of: and thus, a physician, who has passed his time of probation, may become an old man. A striking instance of this is afforded by Hippocrates, who lived to the age of 104. His life was employed in the study of nature, travelling, and visiting the sick: but he passed more of his time in villages, and in the country, than in great cities. Galen, Hoffman, Haller, Van Swieten, and Boerhaave, all attained to a considerable age.

In regard to shortness of life, miners, and those employed in melting houses, are particularly distinguished, as well as those who live under the earth, or are continually exposed to poisonous effluvia. In some mines, which contain abundance of arsenic and cobalt, the workmen do not live to be older than 30.

We shall now give a short view, as arising from climate, of the difference of age:

Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and England, have doubtless produced the oldest men. Instances of some who attained to the age of 130, 140, and 150, have occurred in these countries. However favourable a northern climate may be to longevity, too great a degree of cold, is, on the other hand, prejudicial to it. In Iceland and the northern parts of Asia, such as

teeth early. He was never sick; and never lost his temper, that is, it was physically impossible that his gall could overflow. He cautiously avoided every kind of strife. He placed the greatest trust in providence; and this christianlike confidence constituted his greatest consolation against the cares and troubles of the world.

He

In 1792, an old soldier, named Mittelstedt, died in Prussia, in the 182d year of his age. He was born at Tersahn, in that country, in 1681; and was lost at the gaming-table by his master, who one evening staked his whole equipage and six more servants. then entered the army, and served as a soldier sixtyseven years. He was present in all the campaigns under Frederick William I. and Frederick II., and, in particular, in those of the war of seven years; and had been engaged in seventeen general actions, in which he braved numberless dangers, and received many wounds. In the seven years' war his horse was shot under him, and he was then taken prisoner by the Russians. After supporting all these difficulties he married; and, having lost two wives, he married a third, in 1790, when he was in the 110th year of his age. A little time before his death, he was still able to walk two miles every month, to receive his small pension.

The same year (1792) died at Neus, in the archbishoprick of Cologne, H. Kauper, aged 112. He was a man of strong make; had been accustomed to walk a little every day; could read till his death without spectacles; and retained the use of his senses to the last.

Thomas Garrik was alive in 1795, in the county of Fife, in the 108th year of his age. He still possessed great vigour; and was celebrated on account of his extraordinary appetite. For twenty years he had never been confined to his bed by sickness.

In 1798 there was living a man at Tacony, near Philadelphia, named R. Glen, a shoemaker, in the 114th year of his age. He was a Scotsman, had seen William III., enjoyed the perfect use of his sight and memory, ate and drank with a keen appetite, had a good digestion, laboured the whole week, and on Sunday walked to the church at Philadelphia. His third wife was still alive; she was thirty years of age, and seemed perfectly satisfied with the behaviour of her husband.

A certain Baron Baravicino de Capallis died in 1776, at Meran, in the Tyrol, at the age of 104. He had been married to four wives: the first he married in his 14th, and the last in his 84th year. By his fourth wife he had seven children, and when he died she was big with the eighth. The vigour of his body and mind did not forsake him till the last months of his life. He never used spectacles; and, when at a great age, would frequently walk a couple of miles. His usual food was eggs; he never tasted boiled flesh ; sometimes he ate a little roasted, but always in very small quantity; and he drank abundance of tea, with rosa solis and sugar candy.

Anthony Senish, a farmer, in the village of Puy, in Limoges, died in 1770, in the 111th year of his age.