24 Mr. Worcester on Longevity. 
ble; they are so long and abundant as to fall gracefully from the 
crown of his head, parting regularly from a central point, and 
reaching down to his shoulders ; his hair is perfectly snow white, 
except where it is thick in his neck ; when parted there, it shows 
some few dark shades, the remnants of a former century. 
‘¢ He still retains the front teeth of his upper jaw ; his mouth 
is not fallen in, like that of old people generally, and his lips, 
particularly, are like those of middle life ; his voice is strong and 
sweet-toned, although a little tremulous ; his hearing very little 
impaired, so that a voice of usual strength, with distinct articula- 
tion, enables him to understand ; his eyesight is sufficient for his 
work, and he distinguishes large print, such as the title page of 
the Bible, without glasses: his health is good, and has always 
been so, except that he has now a cough and expectoration. He is 
really a most remarkable and interesting old man; there is nothing 
either in his person or dress, of the negligence and squalidness 
of extreme age, especially when not in elevated circumstances ; 
on the contrary, he is agreeable and attractive, and were he 
dressed in a superior manner, and placed in a handsome and well 
furnished apartment, he would be a most beautiful old man. 
‘«¢He has had two wives, and twenty-one children; the 
youngest child is the daughter, in whose house he now lives, and 
she is fifty-two years old; of course he was eighty-two when 
she was born. They suppose several of the older children are 
still living, at a very advanced age, beyond the Ohio. 
‘* Henry Francisco has been all his life a very active and en- 
ergetic, though not a stout-framed man. He was formerly fond of 
spirits, and did, for a certain period, drink more than was proper, but 
that habit appears to have been long abandoned. In other respects 
he is remarkably abstemious, eating but little, and particularly ab- 
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