length of life.

Lord Bacon observes, that the succession of ages, and of the generation of men, seems no way to shorten the length of human life, since the age of man, down from Moses's time to the present, has stood at about eighty years, without gradually declining, as one might have expected. The greatest instances of longevity in these our islands, are that of old Parr, who lived almost 153 years; of Jenkins, of Yorkshire, who lived 169 years; or of the countess Defmond, or Mr Eckleton, both of Ireland, who each exceeded 140 years.