Mr. Worcester on Longevity. av 
and of considerable activity ; his hearing good, and his sight such 
that he was able to read without spectacles. Two years after- 
wards, when he left Kentucky for Indiana, he travelled on foot 
from twelve to twenty miles a day. 
He had been twice married, and had had 19 children, of whom 
14 were living in 1818, one of them only eleven years of age; 
and he had had upwards of 300 descendants. He was a man of 
firm health, never known to be sick; of cheerful disposition, and 
temperate habits. He was a professor of Christianity, of the 
Baptist denomination. He was a poor man, and was employed. 
as a school master for 68 or 70 years. 
In England there was published, a few years since, a list of 
such persons as were known to have lived, in different periods 
and countries, to the age of 120 years or upwards. The number 
amounted to 145, distributed as follows : 
63 to England and Wales, 29 to Ireland, 
23 to Scotland, 30 to other countries. 
The table inserted above contains the names of 48 persons 
who have reached this age in the United States, and 37 of them 
have died since 1800. This country, therefore, considering its 
age and population, can produce its full share of instances of re- 
markable longevity, 
It has been asserted by European philosophers, ‘that the 
principle of life is deteriorated in the climate of America.”? Smith, 
in his History of New York, says, that “the inhabitants of this 
colony are shorter lived than Europeans.”” Whitehurst likewise 
observes, that ‘“‘ Englishmen in general are longer lived than Ameri- 
cans; and that a British constitution will last longer even in that 
