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Foot wide, each ef them ingraven with unaccountable Characters, 
not like any known Character. He has not vet been able to 
procure the whole, which he hopes to be Matter of before 
long, and has herewirh fent a Copy of two of them, promi- 
fing the reft: ; they are as is reprefented, Fig. 8. 
The laft Letter of this Colleftion, dated Nov.zy. ijiz. 
gives a Calculation of the pottible fncreafe of the Descen- 
dants of Adam ; and from this Introduction pro eeds to the 
Account of fome long-Iiv’d Perfons there, as likewife of 
their Fruitfalnefs. He fays, ’tis no rare thing with them to 
have an aged Gentlewoman fee many more than loo of her 
Offspring. He mentions one Woman that had z} Children, 
of which 19 liv’d to Man’s Eh ate. Another that had z? ; 
another z 6, of which zi were Sons, one whereof was Sir 
William Phipps ; another 39 Children. Here he gives feve- 
ral Inftances of Perfons living, with them, to above 100 
Years of Age. One Clement Weaver lived to no, his Wife 
being upwards of 100. This Man, to the laft Year, could 
carry a Buihel of Wheat to the Mill, above z Miles. He 
relates the Cafe of an old Man, above 100, that loft the 
memory of feveral of the latter Years of his Life, but very 
well retain’d the Remembrance of what paft in his younger 
days. I do not find, by any of thefc Relations, that the 
Perfons obferv’d any Regularity, or Method, in their man- 
ner of Diet, Exercife, or the like. 
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