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TABLE OF THE PROBABILITIES OF THE DURATION OF LIFE. 

Age. Duration of Life. 
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Age. Duration of Life. 
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Age. Duration of Life. 
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Years Years. Months. Years. Years. Months. Years.| Years. Months, 
0 8 0 29 28 6 \| 58 12 3 
1 33 0 30 28 0 59 11 8 
2 38 0 31 27 6 60 11 1 
3 40 0 32 26 11 61 10 6 
4 41 0 33 26 3 62 10 0 
5 41 6 34 25 7 63 g) 6 
6 42 0 35 25 0 64 9 0 
7 42 3 36 24 5 65 8 6 
§ Al 6 37 23 10 66 8 0 
9 40 10 38 23 3 67 7 6 
10 40 2 39 22 8 68 a 0 
11 39 6 40 22 al 69 6 Ul 
12 38 9 41 21 6 70 6 2 
13 38 u 42 20 11 71 5 8 
14 37 5 43 20 4 a2, 5 4 
15 36 9 44 1g 9 73 5 0 
16 36 0 45 19 3 74 4 9 
17 35 4 46 18 9 7d 4 6 
18) ,), 34 8. camellpvany ia8 2 76 4 Sh dud 
19 34 0 48 ‘lig; 8 77 4 1 
20 3o 5 | 49 17 2 78 3 11 
21 3 11 50 16 Uf 79 3 9 
22 32 4 51 16 0 80 3 7 
23. 31 10 52 15 6 81 3 5 
24 31 3 53 15 n 82 3 3 
25.| 30 9 54 14 6 | 83 3 2 
20) oU 2 55 14 0 84 es 1 
97 | 29 7 56 | 13 5 | er ae 0 
28 29 0 oO 12 10 | 
By this Table it appears, that it is reasonably to be expected, or, in other 
words, that we may lay an even wager, that an infant newly born, will live 
eight years longer; that an infant of one year, will live thirty-three years 
longer; that an infant of two years, will live thirty-eight years longer; that 
a man of twenty, will live thirty-three years and five months longer; that a 
man of thirty, will live twenty-eight years longer; and so proportionally 
of every other age. 
Ideas of external things are conveyed to the soul of man by means of the 
five Senses for seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling. The organs 
through which the senses act are the nerves, which are small thread-like 
fibres, distributed all over the body, and all of them connected with the brain. 
The eyes seem to be formed very early in the human embryo. In the 
chicken, also, of all the parts that are double, these are the soonest produc- 
ed; and it is observed from the eggs of several sorts of birds, as well as 
from those of lizards, that the eyes are much larger and more early in the 
