ton, aged 116. She had five sons and seven daughters, all of them living at her death. Her descendants were then 1492.

In 1806, at Mohegan, Connecticut, Martha, wife of Zachary, a Mohegan Chief, aged 120 years.

Dr. Dwight enumerates upwards 50 others alive or recently dead, whose ages exceeded 100 years each.

While M. de Humboldt was at Lima, a Peruvian In dian died at the age of 147, having been married 90 years to the same woman, who had lived to the age of 117: till the age of 130 this venerable personage used to walk three or four leagues every day.

The same Traveller mentions another native of Peru who died at the age of 147, after having been also 90 years married.

LOUISA TRUXO.

(Taylor's Annals of Longevity.)

A Negress, named Louisa Truxo, was living in June,

1780, at Cordova, in the Tucuman, South America; whose age was then one hundred and seventy-five years. In order to ascertain the authenticity of this very extraordinary circumstance, the council of that city, in their judicial capacity, instituted an inquiry into the affair, and collected every information capable of throwing any light on the subject. On the examination of the negress it appeared, that she perfectly remembered having seen the Prelate Fernando Truxo, her first master, who died in the year 1614; and that a year before his death he gave her, together with other property, towards a fund for founding the university of that place. As no registers of baptism existed so long ago, care was taken to collect every circumstance that could be brought forward in proof of this extraordinary and very uncommon fact. One of these proofs was the deposition of another negress, named Monuela, who was known to be one hundred and twenty years old; and she declared, that when she was quite a child, she remembered that Louisa Truxo was then an old woman.

Here we cannot refrain from reflecting, that the heat of the climate of South America, the moderate climate of England, and the intense cold of Russia, are no bars to the attainment of long life, where temperance is observed.

A Mulatto man, whose name is not mentioned in the account, died at Frederick Town in North America, in the year 1797, who was said to have been one hundred and eighty years old.

HENRY FRANCISCO, THE LONG-LIVED.

(From the Liverpool Kaleidoscope.)

THE New York papers lately announced to us the death of Henry Francisco, at the astonishing age of one hundred and thirty-four years. At this moment the following extract from Professor Silliman's Tour, between Hartford and Quebec, will not be uninteresting.—

"Two miles from Whitehall, on the Salem road to Albany, lives Henry Francisco, a native of France, and of a place which he pronounced Essex, but doubtless this is not the orthography, and the place was probably some obscure village, which may not be noticed in maps and gazetteers.

Having a few hours to spare before the departure of of the steam-boat for St. John's, in Canada, we rode out to see (probably) the oldest man in America. He believes himself to be one hundred and thirty-four years old, and the country around believes him to be of this great age. When we arrived at his residence (a plain farmer's house, not painted, rather out of repair, and much opened to the wind) he was up stairs, at his daily work of spooling and winding yarn. This occupation is auxiliary to that of his wife, who is a weaver, and although more than eighty years old, she weaves six yards a day, and the old man can supply her with more yarn than she can weave. Supposing he must be very feeble, we offered to go up stairs to him, but he soon came down, walking somewhat stooping, and supported by a staff, but with less apparent inconvenience than most

persons exhibit at eighty-five or ninety. His stature is of the middle size, and, although his person is rather delicate and slender, he stoops but little, even when unsupported. His complexion is very fair and delicate, and his expression bright, cheerful, and intelligent. His features are handsome, and, considering that they have endured through one-third part of a second century, they are regular, comely, and wonderfully undisfigured by the hand of time. His eyes are of a lively blue; his profile is Grecian, and very fine; his head is completely covered with the most beautiful and delicate white locks imaginable; they are so long and abundant as to fall gracefully from the crown of his head, parting regularly from a central point, and reaching down to his shoulders; his hair is perfectly snow white, except where it is thick in his neck-when parted there, it shows some few dark shades, the remnants of a former century.

He still retains the front teeth of his upper jaw; his mouth is not fallen in, like that of old people generally, and his lips, particularly, are like those of middle life; his voice is strong and sweet toned, although a little tremulous; his hearing very little impaired; so that a voice of usual strength, with distinct articulation, enables him to understand; his eye-sight is sufficient for his work, and he distinguishes large print, such as the title-page of the Bible, without glasses; his health is good, and has always been so, except that he has now a cough, and expectoration.

He informed us that his father being driven out of France by religious persecution, fled to Amsterdam; by his account it must have been on account of the persecutions of the French protes ants, or Hugonots, in the latter part of Louis XIV. At Amsterdam, his father married his mother, a Dutch woman, five years before he was born, and, before that event, returned with her into France. When he was five years old, his father again fled on occount of "de religion," as he expressed it (for his language, although very intelligible English, is marked by French peculiarities.) He says, he well remembers their flight, and that it was in the winter.

From these dates we are enabled to fix the time of his birth, provided he is correct in the main fact; for

he says he was present at Queen Anne's coronation, and was then sixteen years old, the 31st day of May, old style. His father (as he asserts) after his return from Holland, had again been driven from France, by persecution, and the second time took refuge in Holland, and afterwards in England, where he resided, with his family, at the time of the coronation of Queen Anne, in 1702. This makes Francisco to have been born in 1686; to have been expelled from France in 1691, and therefore to have completed his hundred and thirty-third year on the 11th of last June; of course he is now more than three months advanced in his hundred and thirty-fourth year. It is notorious that about this time multitudes of French protestants fled, on account of the persecutions of Louis XIV. resulting from the revocation of the edict of Nantz, which occurred October 12th, 1685; and, notwithstanding the guards upon the frontiers, and other measures of precaution or rigour, to prevent emigration, it is well krown, that, for years, multitudes continued to make their escape, and that thus Louis lost six hundred thousand of his best and most useful subjects. I asked Francisco if he saw Queen Anne crowned? He replied; with great animation, and with an elevated voice, "Ah! dat I did, and a fine looking woman she was too, as any dat you will see now a days."

He said he fought in all Queen Anne's wars, and was at many battles, and under many commanders, but his memory fails, and he cannot remember their names, except the Duke of Malbury, who was one of them.

He has been much cut up by wounds, which he showed us; but cannot always give a very distinct account of his warfare.

He came out with his father from England to New York, probably early in the last century, but cannot remember the date.

He

Henry Francisco has been, all his life, a very active and energetic, although not a stout-framed man. was formerly fond of spirits, and did, for a certain period, drink more than was proper; but that habit appears to have been long abandoned.

In other respects he has been remarkably abstemious, eating but little, and particularly abstaining almost en

tirely from animal food, his favourite articles being tea, bread and butter, and baked apples. His wife said, after such a breakfast, he would go out and work till noon; then dine upon the same, if he could get it, and then take the same at night, and particularly that he always drank tea, whenever he could obtain it, three cups at a time, three times a-day.

The oldest people of the vicinity remember Francisco, as being always from their earliest recollection, much older than themselves; and a Mr. Fuller, who recently died here, between 80 and 90 years of age, thought Francisco was one hundred and forty.

On the whole, although the evidence rests, in a degree, on his own credibility, still, as many things corroborate it, and as his character appears remarkably sincere, guileless, and affectionate, I am inclined to believe that he is as old as he is stated to be. He is really a most re.narkably interesting old man; there is nothing either in his person or dress, of the negligence and squalidness of extreme age, especially when not in elevated circumstances; on the contrary, he is agreeable and attractive, and were he dressed in a superior manner, and placed in a handsome and wel! furnished apartment, he would be a most beautiful old man.

Little could I have expected to converse and shake hands with a man who has been a soldier in most of the wars of this country for one hundred years-who, more than a century ago, fought under Marlborough, in the wars of Queen Anne, and who, (already grown up to manhood) saw her crowned one hundred and seventeen years since; who, one hundred and twenty-eight years ago, and in the century before the last, was driven from France by the proud, magnificent, and intolerant Louis XIV. and who has lived a forty-fourth part of all the time that the human race have oocupied this globe.

What an interview! It is like seeing one come back from the dead, to relate the events of centuries, now swallowed up in the abyss of time!"