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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...arms and broke the bone, besides very much bruising her. About two years before this event she cut several new teeth, and her hair resumed a good deal of its original colour. Hunter, Margaret, widow, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, died 1753, aged 104. Her beverage was mostly water or milk; never touching spirits, and not having, to her recollection, drank malt liquor more than two or three times during her life. Hobbs, Mr., a gardener, of Bristol, died 1753, aged 107. Hughes, Rev. Richard, of Moore, in Ireland, died 1756, aged 107. Harrison, Elizabeth, widow, of Bale, Norfolk, died 1758, aged 104. Hancock, John, a farmer, of Neston, Cheshire, died 1775, aged 112. Harris, Mary, widow, near Falmouth, died 1812, aged 113. She retained the complete use of all her natural faculties to the last, and left two daughters, one aged seventy and the other eighty years. Haverin, Charles, of Derrymore, near Newry, Ireland, died 1813, aged 115. The Right Hon. Isaac Corry (in whose employment he had been for many years) generously settled an annuity upon him, by which the old man was enabled to pass the closing days of his life in ease and comfort. Hongo, Francis, surnamed Huppazoli, consul for the Venetians in Smyrna, died 1702, aged 113. He lived towards the end of his life chiefly on broth, or some tender animal food, and drank no wine or other fermented liquids. He was never sick, walked eight miles as a regular practice every day, and retained his sight, hearing, and memory, to the last. He was five times married, and had forty-nine children born to him. It is related, that when about a hundred years old his white hair fell off, and was succeeded by a crop of its original colour, and that he cut two teeth at 112. Hall, Mary, of Bishophill, York, of which place she was sexton...
