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Table showing tin mri/i/.< //< tin- American fleet, the home consumption, <uul tin- r.rjiin / uf /(/< //<n/. jnnn l.-i;.", in |,-,- 1 



Table shotting the value of oil and i>anc lumli d lii/ l/n- .liitiricnii irlmlintj fleet, the value of tli? proportion consumed in the 

 I ~ni lid Slates, and the ralue of the proportion is]><-t<-d during the years 1865 to 1880. 



Table showing the average prices of sperm and irltttle oil per gallon and whalebone each month from 1868 to 1880. 



* The followiu^ additional data have been received since the above ws compiled : Average price of sperm oil per gallon in 1881, 

 in 1882, $1.00; in 18.-:). !(7 cenls; in 1884, 85 cents. Whale oil in 1881, 48 cents ; in 1882, 58i cents; in!883, 54 cents; in 1884, 56 i-.-uI*. 

 bone per pound in 1881, $1.63 j in 1882, $1.71 ; in 1883, $2.87 ; in 1884, $3.55. 



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