4306.] 
Haller, Dr. Fothergill, Dr. Barton, Dr. 
Huteland, and a few others who have no- 
ticed this fubject, appear to have confi- 
dered but a very fmall number of the in- 
ftances of longevity which have occurred : 
Mr. J. Eaiton, in order to fupply better 
materials for others, pubiifhed, a few 
years fince, a much greater collection of 
initances of this kind, though probably 
but a fmail part of what have a&tually oc- 
curred. Mott of fuch accounts, however, 
contain little more than the name, age, 
and place of the death, of the perfon men- 
tioned, from which, of courfe, little in- 
formation can be gained. This deficiency 
of muterials. neceflarily rendered Sir J. 
Sinclair’s Eflay on Longevity rather an. 
attempt to colle&t information than to 
communicate it; asd with the fame view 
I beg leave to folicit from the readers of 
your Magazine any information they may 
be able to furnith refpecting the following 
perfons, who are recorded therein to have 
died at upwards of roo years of age in 
the courfe of the laft year, and that in 
future when any perfons die at fuch ad- 
vanced ages, their. friends or neighbours 
wil! endeavour to furnifh fach particulars 
of their lives as may be the means of in- 
creafing the littl that is known on this 
fubject:— 
Age. 
100 Elizabeth Garrett, Hereford. 
100 Thomas Wilkinfon, CaltleSowerby. 
100 Henry Proétor, Ellingftring. 
100 Maria Walker, Chalcombe. 
100 Mr. Hammond, Norwich. 
roo Sufannah Frank, Maid{tone. 
109 Jane Rait, Cuttlecratgs, N. B. 
100 Mrs. Garrand, Oulon, near Leeds. 
ror Elizabeth Lyon, Melcon, Suffolk. 
101 William Soper, Hfraccmbe. 
102 Mrs. Bridges, Wickham Market. 
102 Sufannah Wall, Woolhope, Here- 
ford. 
zoz Mrs. Matthews, Yardley, Warwick, 
102 Ytyenti Pohi (a Chinefe), Canada. 
toz Mrs. Marfhall, Alresford, Hants. 
toz Mrs. Kidd, Shield Field, near New- 
cafile. 
103 Francis Chriflie, Aberdeen, N. B. 
103 Elizabeth Young, Marnhull, Dorfet. 
104 J. Rdin‘on, Rochford, Effex. 
104 John Burgels, Newton, Chefhire, 
104 James Soias Dodd, Dublin. 
104, Joan Ford, Abborfoury, Dorfet. 
104 Mrs. Manders, Thorndon hall, Ef- 
fex, 
404 William Welth, Whitehaven. 
Iiftances of Longevity.—Query in Philology. 
_ of St. Francis, who lived to 
225 
105 Jane Mair, Old Monkland, N. B. 
105 Robert Swifield, Chelfea Colleg. 
106 Abraham Mols, ditto. 
106 Edward Lawlon, Sunderland. 
106 Archibald Campbell, Gourock, N.B. 
107 Margaret Ker, Gaorin, N.B, 
tog Prudence Booth, Liverpool. 
116 Jane Gregg, Warrington. 
117 Dennis Coorobie, Ireland. 
118 Bridget Kavanagh, Ireland. 
118 Mrs. Mills, Jamaica. 
119 William Simpfon, Ireland. 
1z0 Pompey (a negro), America. 
Of the above thirty -feven perlons feven- 
teen were males, and twenty females: of 
the latter only one is mentioned as not 
having been married; twenty-five were, 
at the time of their deceafe, inhabitants 
of Eugland, five of Scotland, four of Ire- 
land, and three of other countries. 
Fan. 14, 1806. es oe 
P.§. Ina defcription of the Ifland of Malta, 
a tranflation of which is given inthe Monthiy 
Magazine, vol..18, p. 491, it is faid, that 
** there is no place where the inhabitants five 
to a greater age, or where more healthy old 
men are to.be met with, than in Malta; the 
women alfo, after they have paffed a certain 
age, feem to live longer than in any other 
country.” I have lately received an anfwer 
to fome inquiries on this fubjeet froma friend 
who has retided a confiderable time in the 
ifland: he is of opinion, that neither the 
climate or manner of living are favourable to 
longevity; the Maltefe wrap their children 
up with bandages like mummies, fo that 
many of them become.crooked, and moft are 
| injured in their health for the remainder of 
their days. The only inftances of great age 
with which he is acquainted are, the Grand 
Matter, E. Pinto, who lived to 98, a prieft 
96, Vicenzo 
Micallef, who lived to 103 years and nine 
months, and a woman who aied about twelve 
years fince at Gozo, at the age of 104. 
R a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
SHALL confider myfelf much obliged 
to any one of your philological readers, 
who willaccount for (what to me appear 
inftances of inaccuracy in our language) 
the cuftem of expreffing the aét and the 
Perpetrator of the act by the fame term, 
as in the words fuicide, regicide, &c, and 
whether it would offend againit the analo~ 
gy of language to appropriate to the acts 
tnemiclves the terms futcifm, regici{m, 
&c. I am,. Sir, &c. 
ZuTEsTNS. 
ORIGINAL 
Ia est a tee ayaa TIO a pera eS 
sais ky en et 
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