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of negroes. At St. Andrew's, Jamaica, Robert Lynch, the 

 property of Sir Edward Hyde East, died, aged 160. At 

 St. John's, Antigua, a black woman died at 130. Numerous 

 instances are given of the great age of this race in the United 

 States. It appears that the most refined and polished na- 

 tions have not much pre-eminence in longevity over savage 

 tribes, leaving out a few causes of destruction inseparable 

 from the habitudes of barbarous races, and that Africans 

 and Indians often attain extreme old age. Humboldt gives 

 native American Indians long lives. Hilario Savi died at 

 Chiguata, aged 143, while Humboldt was at Lima. Her 

 husband, Andrea Alexis Zar, was 117 years old. He also 

 knew a Peruvian, of 130 years, who walked daily three or 

 four leagues. 



After enumerating cases of extreme longevity, Hufeland 

 remarks : " These are all the instances of great age in 

 modern times with which I have been acquainted. Persons 

 of 100 I omit, for these are more common." He concludes 

 on the problem, " how long can man live as an individual, 

 and what is the relative duration of human life ?" " We 

 may, therefore, with the greatest probability, assert that the 

 organization and vital power of man are able to support a 

 duration and activity of TWO HUNDRED years." This, as we 

 have seen, is the conclusion of Haller. On the question of 

 what class of men, employment, temperament, etc. live 

 longest, see the tables of Madden, Hufeland, Flourens, Wil- 

 son, and ethnologists and physiologists generally. The fol- 

 lowing would seem to be the general conclusions : " The most 

 extraordinary instances of longevity are to be found only 

 among those classes of mankind who, amidst bodily labor, 

 and in the open air, lead a simple life agreeable to nature, 

 such as farmers, gardeners, hunters, soldiers, and sailors. 

 In these situations man still attains to the age of 140 and 

 even 150 years." 



The general results further seem to be these : kings and em- 

 perors are not characterized as long livers. " From Augustus 

 till now, out of two hundred Roman and German emperors 



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