Kerala Life Expectancy 145 Years 1805 Journal Tamils 100 Ptolemy
People seemed to live long in the state, he observed claiming he had seen many more old people there than in other lands, including a 145-year-old woman! As Jacob Sapir travelled south to Trivandrum from Cochin, he seemed to fall even more in love with Kerala. Describing the areas near Alleppey and Quilon, he wrote: “And we passed through this way for a night and a day and a night, to the delight of our souls because we were passing through a land which is like the Garden of Eden, fruitful and verdant, with gardens and orchards on this side and that. And all year long the fruit does not fail and the plain is green with vegetation and lovely to the sight, and all day could be heard the joyful shouting of people and animals within the gardens and orchards where their homes are, in summer and winter.”






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