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LONGEVITY.
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little, with his beard, is grey : he is boiling a pot, resem-
bling an urn, by a small fire near his feet but he appears
as if necessity obliged, rather than as if inclination prompted
him to do it, as his countenance is strongly expressive of
languor and fatigue, and his eyes are cast on the pot with
an air of great indifference. He is sitting on the left side
of the picture,”
The following is a Translation of the Inscription on the
Picture of two more old Hungarians. •
ec John Roven, in the 172nd year of his age,
and Sarah, his wife, in the 164th year of her age. (Grais
Ritusf They have been married 147 years, and both born
and died at Stradova, in the directory of Casanseber, in Te-
meswaer Banets : their children, two sons, and two daugh-
ters, all yet alive. The youngest son is 116 years of age ;
and he has two great-grandsons, the one in the 35th, and
the other in the 27'th year of his age. Dated August 25,
1725.”
The Picture is described as follows:
“ The dress of the man consists of a white frock, open
at the bosom, and reaching almost down to his knees, and
is confined round his waist by a girdle made of rushes, in
which is hung a knife. He has trowsers the same colour
as his frock, the bottoms of which are fastened round his
ancles by a strap of his sandals : he is standing, supported
by a stick in his right hand, and his knees rather bent; in
his left hand is a bundle of Indian corn, which he is pre-
senting to his wife. What hair he has, with his beard, is
a light grey : his eyes are quick, clear, and penetrating: in
the whole deportment, there is rather the appearance of a
general decline of nature, but by no means those traces
of old age, which so strongly mark his wife. He is, by
an old^ ruin, and in the back ground is a small fire, kin-
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little, with his beard, is grey : he is boiling a pot, resem-
bling an urn, by a small fire near his feet but he appears
as if necessity obliged, rather than as if inclination prompted
him to do it, as his countenance is strongly expressive of
languor and fatigue, and his eyes are cast on the pot with
an air of great indifference. He is sitting on the left side
of the picture,”
The following is a Translation of the Inscription on the
Picture of two more old Hungarians. •
ec John Roven, in the 172nd year of his age,
and Sarah, his wife, in the 164th year of her age. (Grais
Ritusf They have been married 147 years, and both born
and died at Stradova, in the directory of Casanseber, in Te-
meswaer Banets : their children, two sons, and two daugh-
ters, all yet alive. The youngest son is 116 years of age ;
and he has two great-grandsons, the one in the 35th, and
the other in the 27'th year of his age. Dated August 25,
1725.”
The Picture is described as follows:
“ The dress of the man consists of a white frock, open
at the bosom, and reaching almost down to his knees, and
is confined round his waist by a girdle made of rushes, in
which is hung a knife. He has trowsers the same colour
as his frock, the bottoms of which are fastened round his
ancles by a strap of his sandals : he is standing, supported
by a stick in his right hand, and his knees rather bent; in
his left hand is a bundle of Indian corn, which he is pre-
senting to his wife. What hair he has, with his beard, is
a light grey : his eyes are quick, clear, and penetrating: in
the whole deportment, there is rather the appearance of a
general decline of nature, but by no means those traces
of old age, which so strongly mark his wife. He is, by
an old^ ruin, and in the back ground is a small fire, kin-
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