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NEW-YORK FAUNA. 



whale fishery, in the year ending September, 1839, was 557, making an aggregate of 169,938 

 tons, which would give employment to 9,987 men, and to as many more on shore, in the 

 various operations of coopering, refining, etc. etc. 



places . 



WHERE OWNED. 





New-Bedford, 

 Fairhaven, 

 Dartmouth, . . 



Westport , 



Wareham, 

 Rochester, 

 Nantucket, 

 Edgartown, . . 

 Holmes Hole, 

 Fall River,..., 



Lynn, 



Newburyport, 

 Plymouth, 



Salem 



Boston 



Dorchester, . . 

 Falmouth, ... 

 Provincetown, 

 Portland, .... 

 Wiscasset, . . . 

 Portsmouth, . 

 Newport, .... 



Bristol, 



Warren, .... 

 Providence, . . 

 New-London, 

 Stonington, . . 



Mystic, 



Sag-Harbor, . . 

 Greenport, . . . 

 New-Suffolk, . 

 Jamesport, . . . 

 Bridgeport,. .. 

 New- York, . . . 



Hudson, 



Poughkeepsie, 

 Cold Spring, . 

 Wilmington, . 

 Newark, 



Total, 



69 



43 



3 



5 

 2 

 5 



77 

 8 

 3 

 4 



■4 

 3 

 3 



l I 



1 

 1 

 1 



9 

 5 



18 

 3 



30 

 7 

 5 



31 

 4 

 1 

 1 

 3 

 3 

 8 

 G 

 2 



4 



2 



10 



4 



.... 



3 



70 



13 



3 



GO 



4 



1 



1 



"b 

 3 

 5 

 1 



1 

 2 



"is 



1 



31 



13 



.... 



1 



3 

 2 



1 

 11 



27 

 7 



12 

 5 



3 



1 



5 



1 



15 



6 



7 



14 



•4 



1 



1 



2 



1 



10 



1 



.... 



1 



11 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 1 



27 



5 



.... 



1 

 2 

 9 

 1 

 1 

 3 

 1 



177 



44 



3 



9 



4 



15 



81 



4 

 3 

 3 



11 

 1 

 2 

 8 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



11 

 6 



21 

 3 



39 



12 

 8 



31 

 5 

 1 

 1 

 3 

 3 

 • 8 

 6 

 2 

 5 

 1 



His 



50 



309 



89 



60 



86 



in 



73 



557 



56,118 



13,274 



874 



1,443 



" 904 



2,615 



27,364 



2,659 



1,180 



1.604 



1,269 



1,099 



910 



4,265 



125 



581 



2,490 



172 



388 



380 



348 



3,152 



1,782 



6,075 



1,086 



11,447 



1,912 



1,797 



10,605 



2,014 



274 



236 



913 



710 



2,902 



2,043 



629 



1,578 



366 



169,983 



The amount of whale and sperm oil and whalebone introduced into the United States, and 

 the total value of the same at estimated average prices from actual sales during the four years 

 preceding 1839, is as follows : 



