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dinian ecclesiastic, merchant at Scio, and Venetian Consul at Smyrna, who ate but little except fruits, and drank water, and lived one hundred and fifteen years; Miss Hinckley, poetess; John Whitcomb, whose health was so good at one hundred and four years that he rose and bathed himself in cold water, even in mid-winter—whose wounds would heal like those of a child—who drank only water for eighty years, and subsisted for thirty years on bread and milk chiefly; Captain Ross, the celebrated navigator, who with his company spent the winter of 1830-31 above 70° North latitude, without beds or bed-clothing, or animal food with no evidence of any suffering from the mere disuse of flesh and fish; Henry Francisco, one hundred and twenty-five years old; Prof. Adam Ferguson; Howard the philanthropist, who with constitution not very strong, endured in his visits to the prisons of Europe the greatest fatigue of body and mind, and the most dangerous exposures to pestilential diseases; Gen. Elliot, British; Thomas Bell, F. R. S., etc., previously cited; Sir Charles Bell; Linnaeus, the naturalist; Prof. Owen; Shelley the poet, who entertained the most earnest convictions on this subject, and wrote a treatise against the slaughter of animals and their use as food; John Wesley, who, for the last half of his long life of eighty-eight years, was a thorough-going vegetarian, and who lived four successive years entirely on potatoes, never enjoying better health than then, nor relaxing his arduous labors; Henry Judkins, who lived one hundred and sixty-nine years; Ephraim Pratt, one hundred and sixteen years (who, on account of ill health, adopted a vegetable diet at seventy and was well ever after); his son, one hundred and three years; John Maxwell, one hundred and four years (married at seventy a third wife, who bore him seven children, married again at ninety-five—could walk sixty miles in nine hours); J . Effingham of Cornwall, who died in 1757, aged one hundred and forty-four years (walked a league eight days before
