APPENDIX.

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The preceding Tables record that 6201 persons are said to have exceeded 100 years of age. They must be regarded as very short of the number which might be collected if proper attention were paid to the subject. I am fully aware that they may contain many errors and exaggerations, and perhaps some wilful misstatements; but, after having made a due allowance for all these, enough, and more than enough, will remain to justify a fair presumption that human life might endure much longer than it usually does, and to encourage the exertions of those who desire to promote healthful Longevity.

1 An Italian nobleman, who, when young, lived in a free and dissipated manner, and consequently became so afflicted by disease that it was not supposed he could live many months. At about 40 years of age he resolved on the extraordinarily temperate course of life which he ever after adopted, and, by rigidly adhering to it, became strong, and retained good health. He published a most curious and interesting account of all this, part of which is quoted in the preface. He took daily only 12 oz. of food and 20 oz. of wine. At 70 years old he was overturned in a carriage; one arm was broken, one leg dislocated, and his head much cut, yet he recovered easily.

2 Rode to the death of a stag at the age of 90.

4 Two years before she died she could spin.

19 Her father died at 126.

26 His wife died at 106.

27 Was six times married.

28 Died in St. George's Workhouse.

36 Never had a day's illness, nor ever used spectacles.

39 Could read to the last without spectacles, and only kept

his bed one day.

46 Her senses were all unimpaired. 52 Died in St. Luke's Workhouse. 62 Senses all unimpaired.