72 THE WHALEBONE WHALES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 



whales captured about Bermuda.' A number of the natural history observations 

 appear to have been taken from Dudley, and paraj)hrased and much condensed, 

 but the major pai't of the mattei' is original. 



Youuo-'s Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers, published in 1841," contains an 

 interesting note by the authoi" relative to whales occurring about Cape Cod, Mass., 

 which has already been quoted on p. 22, foot-note. 



The second edition of Felt's Annals of Salem, Mass., published in 1849,'' has 

 several pages devoted to statements regarding the American whale fishery (includ- 

 ino- a number of natural history notes) arranged chrouologicallj^ The following 

 are the most impoi'tant : 



Mch. 12, 1692. John Higginsou and Timothy Lindall write to Nathaniel 

 Thomas complaining that the whales were taken away from them, as follows : 



" Ye first was when Woodbury and company, in our boates, in the winter of 1G90, 

 killed a large whale in Cajie Cod harbour. . . . The second case is this last 

 wintei', 1691. William Edds and com[)aDy, in one of our boates, struck a whale, 

 which came ashore dead, and by ye evidence of the people of Cape Cod, was the 

 very whale they killed." (2, pp. 223, 4.) 



"1765, Aug. — The whale fishery from Boston and the neighboring ports 

 amounts to 100 sail, which have been successful this season in the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence and Straits of Belle Isle, having taken upwards of 9,000 barrels of oil." 

 (2, p. 225.)^ 



Winsor's History of Duxbury, Mass., has a few notes on the colonial whale 

 fishery at that place,^ as follows : 



"1690. John Wadsworth was appointed to view whales, that may be cast 

 ashore in the town." 



"1712. Marshfield, Nov. 28: On Tuesday, the 25tli current, six men going 

 off the Gurnet Beach in a whale boat at Duxbury after a whale . . . were all 

 drowned." 



"1724. Dec. 3d. A whale captured off the beach." 



"1770. A dead whale was found a quarter of a mile from the beach. . . . 

 The whale washed ashore and made 15 barrels. 



Freeman's History of Cape Cod, 1858,® contains a letter from Wm. Clapp to 

 Squire Dudley, dated Cape Cod, July 13, 1705, which states: 



" I have very often eveiy year seen that Her Majesty has been very much 

 wronged of her dues by these country peojde and other whalemen as come here 

 awhaling eveiy year which take up drift whales which were never killed by any 

 man," etc. 



' Op. cit., I, pp. 56-60 and 296-298. 



'Young, Alex., Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers, 1602-25. Boston, 1841. 

 ' Felt, J. B., Annals of Salem, 2d ed., 1849, 2, pp. 223-226. I have not seen the ist edition. 

 ' The following note also occurs: 



" 1808. Off the Brimbles, a whale sixty feet long, is found dead by some men from Marble- 

 head." (O/. cit., 2, p. 94.) 



' WiNSOR, J., History of Duxbury, 1849, p. 86. ° Vol. i, p. 342. Spelling corrected. 



