of mortality, constructed in this country, do not go up so
high as the hundredth year; but in a table for the Belgic
states, M. Quetelethas given the numbers of persons above
ninety years of age as follows:
In 10,000 births, the age of 90 is attained t>y .682
91 ........... . . . . . . 510
92 ........... .......... 387
93 ........... . . . . . . 282
9 4 ........... . . . . . . . 207
95 . . . . . . ........... 153
96 . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
97 . . . . . ........... 67
98 . . .. . . . . . . 39
9 9 ...........
100 .......... . . . . . . 10
101 ........... . . . . . . 5
192 . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1 0 3 ...........
1 0 4 ........... . . . . . . 0
M. Quetelet informs us, that at the commencement of ,1831,
there were ten centenarians in Belgica, of which fourteen were
in the three provinces of Hainault, Namur and Luxembourg.
Limbourg and eastern Flanders had each one, and there were
none in the province of Brabant, Antwerp, West Flanders and
Liege. The three oldest of these centenarians were aged
one hundred and four, one hundred and ten, and. one hundred
and eleven. They belonged to Luxembourg : the others did
not exceed one hundred and two years.
Haller made a collection of facts relating to longevity, and
obtained notices ofiup wards of one thousand individuals who
exceeded their hundredth year. Of these sixty-died between
the hundred and ten and one hundred and twentieth year,
twenty-nine were between one hundred and twenty and one
hundred and thirty years old, fifteen between one hundred
and thirty and one hundred and forty years; and seven exceeded
this last term, of whom one lived to be one hundrec.
and sixty-nine years old.
Mr. Easton of Salisbury, in a curious work on longevity,
has collected notices of one thousand seven hundred and
twelve persons w h o exceeded their hundredth year, and from
these the following table has been deduced.
Of males and females who lived from one hundred to one
hundred and ten years, (both inclusive,) the instances have
been one thousand three hundred and ten:
Above 110 to 120 ............................... ......... .. • • 277
«'"• 120 .. 130 . . . . ............................... ........ 84
«. . 1 3 0 .. 140 ................................................ 26
140 .. 150 I .............................................. 7
« 150 .. 160 ............................... .. 3
BI a | l loo .• 170 . — .....................’v.........♦ • 2
170 .. 180 ......................... ...................... 3
- The following is a collection of instances of very advanced
ages by the same writer.
Apollonius of Tyana . . ......... in a . d . 99 aged 130
St. Patrick. ................................ . 122
Attila. • • . . v * • ................. 500 . .... 124
Llywarch Hein............. . 150
St, Coemgene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Piastus, king of Poland............. .. 120
Thomas Parr.............................. ... 152
H enr y Jenkins .......................B .. 169
The Countess of Desmond . . . .................1612 .. .. 145
Thomas Damme....................... .. 154
Peter Tortom». ......................... .. 185
Margaret Patten........................ .................1739 -. .. 137
John Rovin and his Wife,. • • • ..............1741 .. .. 172 & 164
St. Mongah or Kentigen.............................. 1781 .. . . 185
Beyond the limits of Europe there are numerous instances
of well authenticated longevity.
Baron Larrey states, that there were, at Cairo, thirty-five
individuals upwards of one hundred years of age.
It has often been related, that the cenobites of Mount
Sinai, live not unfrequentiy to the age of one hundred and ten
or one hundred and twenty years.
Old men are mentioned by travellers in Arabia, Barbary,
Syria, and Persia, to exceed not unfrequentiy one hundred
years of age.