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every reafon to believe that many of the departments of 

 France, and the mountainous diftri&s of Germany, Hun- 



farv, Sweden, Norway, and even thofe of Spain, Portugal, 

 taly, and America, will produce extraordinary inftances of 

 longevity whenever any particular inquiry is made regarding 

 that interefting circumftance. 



IV. Tables of Longevity. 



Having thus difcuffed the fubjedt of longevity in general, 

 it may not be improper to lay before the reader the following 

 table, explaining the fhortnefs of human life, and pointing 

 out how few there are, in proportion to the number born # 

 who reach even the period of 60 years *. 



Of a hundred men who are born, there die, according to 

 Hufeland, 



Under 10 - - - 50 



Between 10 and 20 - - - 20 

 20 and 30 - - - 10 

 30 and 40 6 



40 and 50 5 



50 and 60 3 



94 

 Hence it would appear that there are only fix out of a 

 hundred who (land a chance of living beyond 60 years. 



Of perfons who have lived above a hundred years, the in- 

 duftrious Haller has collected 11 13 inftances, and gives the 

 following ftatement of the duration of their lives f. 



Of thofe who lived from 100 to no years, the inftances. 

 have been above - 



From no to 120 about 



120 to 130 - 



130 to 140 - 



140 to 150 - 



152 (Parr) 



169 (Jenkins) «• 



1113 



Mungo, was the founder of the bifhopric of Glafgow. The following 

 verfts were made on his extraordinary age and place of interment: 

 " Cum oclogenos centum quoque quinque vir annos 

 " Complerat, Sandtus eft Glafgow funere functus,'' 



Sj>ottifiuood's HiJ}. of the Church of Scotland, p. 11 and it*. 

 * On the Arc of prolonging HumaimLife ; a work written by profeffor 

 Hufeland, of Jena, in Germany. 



t Mailer's Elements Phyfiglogiae Corporis Humani, vol. viii. lib. 30* 

 feci 3. p. 103. 



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