ANTAEUS THE GIANT. 



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bloods or races, showing that long life is not a character- 

 istic of any one original race or compound race : 



Table of Longevity of Mr. Easton, Salisbury, England. 



A.D. 



Appolonius, of Tyana, died in 99 aged 130 



St. Patrick died in 491 122 



Attila* died in 500 124 



Leywarch Hew died in 500 150 



St. Coemgene died in 618 120 



Piastus, King of Poland, died in 861 120 



Thomas Parr died in 1635 152 



Henry Jenkins died in 1670 169 



Countess of Desmond died in 1612 145 



Thomas Damme died in 1648 154 



Peter Torton died in 1724 185 



Margaret Patters died in 1738 137 



John Rovin and wife died in 1741 172 and 164 



St. Mougah, or Kentigern, died in 1781 185 



Coming down to the time of courts and post-mortems, we 

 find the testimony is pointed on one side, that is, the order 

 of men who lived the longest, and reasons why. Henry Jen- 

 kins lived to the age of 169 years, "as proved by the registers 

 of Chancery and other courts where he had appeared as an 

 evidence," etc. He was a fisherman, and consequently passed 

 most of his life in the open air in the exercise of the Wal- 

 tonian art. He was a close observer of nature, and no 

 doubt learned from the fishes the art of swimming well, for 

 "when above 100 years old he was able to swim across 

 rapid rivers." 



Thomas Parr, we have seen, lived to be 152 years and nine 

 months. He died by the "accident" of overgorging his 

 stomach, an accident that has killed many a younger man. 

 Harvey's post-mortem showed him to be perfectly sound, 

 except the gorged stomach, and from all after-death appear- 

 ances he might have lived to the age of Methuselah, i.e, nine 

 hundred sixty and nine years, as " his cartilages were not 



* Attila succeeded his father, King of the Huns, in 434, died in 

 453, reigned 19 years, What Attila is the above ? 



