OF NATURAL HISTORY. 50& 



Diitmter Radaloy, aged 140, lived in Harmenftead, and 

 died on the 16th day of January 1782. 



James Bowels, aged 1 52, lived in Killingworth, and died 

 on the 15th day of Auguft 1656. 



The Countefs of Defmond, in Ireland, faw her 140th year. 



Mr. Eclefton, a native of Ireland, lived to the age of 143) 

 and died in the year 1691. 



John Mount, a native of Scotland, faw his 136th year, 

 and died on the 27th day of February 1776. 

 William Ellis of Liverpool died on the 1 6th day of Auguft 

 1780, at the age of 130. 



Colonel Thomas Winfloe, a native of Ireland, aged 146, 

 died on the 22d day of Auguft 1 766. 



John Taylor was born in Carrygill, in the county of Cum- 

 berland. He was bred a miner. His father died when 

 John was only four years of age. Poverty obliged him to be 

 fet early to work. During two years he drefled lead ore for 

 2 d. a-day. The next three or four years he affifted the 

 miners in removing the ore and rubbifti to the bank, for 

 which he received 4 d. a-day. At this period there happen- 

 ed a great folar eclipfe, which was diftinguifhed in Scotland 

 by the appellation of Mirk Monday'^, This event, which he 

 always repeated with the fame circumftances, is the chief 

 aera from which John's age has been computed. After la- 

 bouring many years both in this and the neighbouring king- 

 dom, he died, near Leadhills in Scotland, in the month of 

 May 1770, at the great age of 133. 



Though the above modern examples of extraordinary- 

 longevity reft chiefly on the authority of periodical publica- 

 tions, yet there is not a doubt, that, in all countries, and at 

 all times, fome perfons of both fexes have arrived at ages far 

 beyond the common periods of human life. If the reader is 



* Mirk, in the Scottifh dialed, fignifies dark ; and the eclipfe happen-cd ia 

 tke year 165 a* 



