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IlSrSTAlsCES OF LONGEVITY. 
Sir John Sinclair’s statistical account affords numerous and authentic 
evidences, that longevity is far from being uncommon. In proof of 
this, we might, if room permitted, give quotations from above four 
hundred of the nine hundred and thirty-eight parochial accounts in 
that work, but we shall content ourselves with only one from that of 
Crossmiehael in Galloway : — “ Within these twenty years,” says the 
Rev. J. Johnstone, “ at least twelve persons have died in the lower 
parts of Galloway, from one-hundred to one hundred and lifteen years 
old. William Marshal, a tinker in this place, is now one hundred 
and eighteen. He might pass for sixty: his faculties are unimpaired, 
and he walks through the country with ease.” 
From the various instances of longevity given by Mr. Whitehurst 
and others, we shall only select a few of the most remarkable : 
Names. 
Hippocrates 
T^^ainnoritii c ^ - 
Ages. 
^109 
Places of birth:, 
or abode. 
Living or dead 
about 
. ..B. C. 358 
361 
Oalen................. 
. .140 
. .A. D. 271 
Titus Fullonius 
Murk Albunia 
. .100 
VlamTinft Pnvr . - 
. .152 
1635 
. .152 
1656 
. .169 
1670 
IVI nnf nrnnipr V 
, .126 
James Sands 
Countess of Desmond . . . 
..140 
.^143 
1691 
Margaret Scott 
R. Blakeney, Esq.. 
..114 
Marquis of Winchester.. . 
Katherine \tac Kenzie .. 
..U7 
T' WSiicIf^w . 
.^144 
1766 
TnRn IX/Iniint 
. .136 
T?t*nnr*i« r?fHl«!St * * « 
. ,150 
1768 
. .121 
1769 
C. J. Drakenburg 
ir t»r»naiVi IVtnnrn .. ^ 
.......1775 
Margaret Patton ........ 
..138 
.J 128 ..... . 
.^140 
.1776 
. .100 
.1779 
M. Lawrence ........... 
Janet Taylor 
T.ntiicQ nPriiYA n nporrpRS 
, ,103 
Evan Williams 
..145....... 
.^116 
T T^rnwri - . . - 
. .107 
. .104 
. .121 
. .105 
.^123 
.,....’•792 
TVnnnld IVT. TiPfift • . . . . . 
..104 
1792 
Tims. Darriiik . . ^ , , , , . . 
. .108 . 
Rebecca Fury ......... 
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