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food. Hornius is full of charaderiftics, that 

 may fatisfy your curiofity in this refpedb, and I 

 defire you to read him. 



I fhali now quit all thefe difcufTions which 

 ought to firiifh the account of my voyages, and 

 Hiall fpeak of another fubjedl, more ufeful to 

 the human race, in regard to which obfer- 

 vation and experience fuffice to inftrud us. 



As it is the natural defire of min to live long,, 

 I hope it will not be foreign to my purpofe, to 

 fhew in a few words, how one may preferve life 

 and live long in America^ 



I fhall therefore finifh my letter by a fmall dif- 

 fertation on the method of managing one's 

 health. I remember to have read, in the Hol- 

 land Gazette of the 3d of April 1687, that Fre- 

 derick Gmldus^ a. noble Venetian, has preferved 

 hisi life to tlie age of four hundred years •, it is 

 pretended, that he was pofTeiTed of the univer- 

 fal medicine. He left Ferace the 7 th of March 

 16^6', having his pi6tufe with him painted by 

 Titian^ who was then already dead an hundred 

 and thirty years. I am fure you will agree with 

 me in faying, that exercife and fobriety procure 

 a perfed health. The nations of America knew 



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