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as to fall gracefully from the crown of his head, parting regu- 

 larly from a central point, and reaching down to his shoul- 

 ders; 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 articulation, 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." 

 ' It appeared from his account of himself,*which was con- 

 sistent and intelligible, and confirmed by collateral historical 

 facts, that his father was a French Protestant, who fled from 

 France, in the latter part of the reign of Louis XIV., in con- 

 sequence of the persecutions arising from the revocation of 

 the edict of Nantz ; that he took refuge in Holland, and after- 

 wards in England ; that Francisco himself was born in the 

 year 1686 ; that he recollects his emigration from France in 

 1691, and the coronation of dueen Anne in 1702, at which 

 time he says he was sixteen years old. He fought in all dueen 

 Anne's wars, and exhibits the scars of many wounds, but only 

 recollects the name of the Duke of Marlborough, among the 

 commanders under whom he served. He came out with his 

 father to New York early in the last century, though he can- 

 not remember the date, and was engaged in most of the wars 

 which occurred until that of the revolution. " He has had 

 two wives and twenty-one children ; the youngest child is the 

 daughter in whose house he lives, and she is fifty-two years 

 old; of course he was eighty-two when she was born." "He 

 has been all his life a very active and energetic, although 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 

 has been remarkably abstemious, eating but little, and particu- 

 larly abstaining, almost entirely, from animal food r his favorite 

 articles being tea, bread and butter, and baked apples. His 

 wife said that after such a breakfast, he would go out and work 

 till noon ; then dine upon the same, if he could get it, and then 

 take the same at night ; and particularly, that he always drank 

 tea, whenever he could obtain it, three cups at a time, three 



