tONGEVITY. 



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LONGEVITY. 



In the town of San Sebastian de f Juaraz, the capital of 

 the province of Huaylas, died on the 12th of December, 1790, 

 Don Juan Modesto de Castro-Monte, at the remarkable age 

 of a hundred and thirty-three years. He was a native of the 

 above province, in which he resided until his death. He Vv as 

 twice married, and left behind him eight children, a multitude 

 of grand-children, and a still greater number belonging to the 

 third and fourth degrees. A daughter by his first marriage, 

 had, during his lifetime, three great grand-children already 

 grown up. His second wife died at the age of ninety-six years, 

 after having been eighty years the partner of his bed. He 

 never on any occasion tasted either wine or strong liquors ; and 

 was never subject to the slightest ailment, not even to a pain 

 of the head. Until his latest years he preserved the use of his 

 faculties free and entire. On the day of his decease there was 

 not any visible change in his health : having received the sa- 

 crament from the hands of the Franciscan friars residing in the 

 above place, he died without any pang, beside that which the 

 laws of human nature, when it has reached its precise boundary, 

 bring with them. His equitable, compassionate, and liberal 

 chara6ler, procured him the love and esteem of all the inhabi- 

 tants of the province, by whom his loss was sensibly felt. A 

 frugal life, separated from the tumultuous passions of the 

 world, and devoted to the innocent pleasures of agriculture, 

 secured to him the enjoyment of that felicity, which in the 

 ancient law was Lhe benedi^jkion of heaven — a long life and a 

 numerous posterity. 



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