1. The extreme purity of the air, which seemed to give me new life as I inhaled it.
2. The use of food thoroughly dressed.
3. Eating their food cold; for they always let their boiled meat cool before they taste it, and do not seize it with avidity as soon as it comes out of the pot.[62]
4. The purity of the water.
5. Tranquillity of mind. They have no contentions, neither are they over and above careful about their affairs, nor addicted to covetousness. Their lives are protracted to extreme old age.
6. Their never overloading the stomach, while the rustic of other countries eats till he is ready to burst.
7. Deficiency of spirituous liquors. Of these they rarely taste; and only in such
quantities as to be rather beneficial than otherwise.
8. Their being inured to cold from their infancy renders them hardy.
9. Probably the quantity of flesh they eat may prolong their lives, as carnivorous animals are long-lived.