5o6 THEPHILOSOPHY 



On this fubjed, the celebrated Lord Verularrt, in his Sylva Sylva- 

 rum *, gives the following paffkge, chiefly tranflated from the fe- 

 venth book of Pliny's Natural Hiftory : ' The year of our Lord fe- 

 ' venty-fix, falling into the time of Vefpafian, is memorable; in 

 ' which we fhall find, as it were, a kalendar of long-lived men: 



* For that year there was a taxing, (now a taxing is the moft au- 



* thentical and truefl: informer touching the ages of men), and in 



* that part of Italy which lieth between the Appennine mountains 



* and the river Po, there were found 124 perfons that either equalled 



* or exceeded an hundred years of age, namely, 



* Fifty-four - - - of loo years each. 

 ' Fifty- fevea - - - no 



' Two - - - - 125 



' Four - - - - - 130 



* Four - _ - - - 135 or 137 

 ' Three - - - - 140 



' Befide thefe, Parma, in particular, afforded five, whereof, 



' Three were - - - - 120 years each, 



* Two - - _ - - 130 



* One in Bruxelles - - - 125 

 ' One in Placentia - - - 131 

 ' One in Faventia - - - 132 



* A certain town, then called Velleiatium, fituate In the hills about 

 ' Placentia, afforded ten, whereof 



* Six were - - - - no years each. 



* Four - - - - - 120 



* One in Rimino, whofe name was Marcus 



• Aponius " ~ * 150.* 



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