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In hi ! xii<iii-iiuj monthly receipt* nf nil ninl whalebone from "" //// </./'''<' <>i "" ' 'iitinl ,S7 .'(.>, t'lnm I MIS to 1880 Conl'd. 



RECAPITULATION. (Total receipts earli year.) 



The following statement shows the quantities of oil and bone lauded by the American Heet and 

 the total value of the same from 1804 to 1880.* The statistics are compiled from Starbuck's His 

 tory of the Whale Fishery nud from the Whalemen's Shipping List. The total \ it-Id >f this fishery 

 for the entire period is seen to be 166,604,496 gallons of sperm oil, 270,727,205 gallons of whale oil, 

 and 76,386,148 pounds of whalebone, having a total value of 8340,204,873. 



Scammoi) estimates that sperm whales will average 25 and right whales 60 barrels of oil, and 

 of the former 10 and of the latter 20 per cent, of those killed are lost. Upon that basis the above 

 amounts of oil would represent the slaughter of about 232,790 sperm and 196,0112 right whales. 



*The following additional statistics have lieen received since tins statement \v.is compiled : 



