30 Mr. Worcester on Longevity. 
Henry Jenkins, a native of Yorkshire, died in 1670, at the age 
of 169. He was a fisherman the last century of his life, and 
often swam inrivers after he had attained 100 years. At the age 
of 157, he was produced in a court of justice and deposed as a wit- 
ness of what had passed within his knowledge 140 years before. 
‘*¢ Though he had not the use of his eyes nor much of his memory 
several years before he died ; yet he had his hearing and appre- 
hension very well, and was able, even in the 130th year of his 
age, to do any husbandman’s work, even threshing corn.” 
Sir William Temple observes, that ‘‘ Many of the Brach- 
mans among the old Indians, and of the Brazilians at the time 
that country was discovered by the Europeans, were said to have 
lived two hundred, some three hundred years.””—‘ It was in the 
Punjab,”’ says Malte-Brun [Geog. vol. III. p. 26], ‘and these 
other elevated countries, that the ancients collected numerous ex- 
amples of Indian longevity. The Cyrni, and the subjects of 
prince Musicanus, often lived to the age of 130 or 200 years. 
The moderns have gone still further. The Portuguese historian, 
Faria, states that an inhabitant of Diu attained the age of three 
full centuries ; and he adds that, according to the accounts of the 
natives, several individuals of 200 were to be found in Guzerat.”’ 
Captain Riley, in the “ Journal of his Shipwreck,” mentions 
an Arab of the Great Desert of Africa, who, according to Sidi _ 
Hamet, was nearly 300 years of age; and in connexion with this 
fact, he adds, *“‘ 1 am fully of opinion that a great many Arabs 
on this vast expanse of desert actually live to the age of 200 
years and more.”’—Mr. Neumark, of Ratisbon, in a treatise re- 
cently published, on the ‘“* Means of Attaining to Advanced Age,” 
has quoted one example of a person who had lived to the age of 
