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feen the firft Spaniards that boarded America, who 

 we may thence conclude, liv'd to beat leaft 160 

 Years old. 



The Hollanders who traffick in the Molucca 

 Iflands, affure us, that the ordinary term of Life 

 of the Natives there is one hundred and thirty 

 Years. 



Vincent le Blanc tells us, that in Sumatra, Ja- 

 va, and the neighbouring Iflands, the Life of 

 t?he Inhabitants is extended to 140 Years, and 

 that in the Realm of Cajfuby it reaches 150. 

 Francis Pirara promotes the Life of the Brajj- 

 Hans beyond the Term we have fet it, v. g, to 160 

 Years or more, and fays that in Florida and Ju- 

 catan there are Men found who pafs that Age. 

 And it is faid, that the French in Laudoniors 

 Voyage into Florida, Anno 1564. faw a certain 

 old Man, who affirmed himfelf to be three hun- 

 dred Years old, and the Father of five Genera- 

 tions j And well he might be of double that num- 

 ber, 



LafHy, Mapheous reports, that a certain Be?!- 

 galife vaunted himfelf to be 335 Years old. So 

 far Monfieur Rochejort, Indeed thefe two laft 

 Inftances, being perchance Angular and extra- 

 ordinary, do not prove the Point 3 for even a- 

 mong us, where the ordinary term of Life is 

 about threefcore and ten, or fourfcore, there 

 occur fome rare Inftances of Perfons, who have 

 lived 130, 140, 150 Years and more. But the 

 other Teftimonies being general, prove it beyond 

 contradidtion 5 neither yet is the thing in it felf 



impro- 



