CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND. vii 



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 CHAP, v.— Account of the Davis' Strait 

 Whale-Fishery, and a comparison with that 

 of Greenland, with Statements of Expen- 

 ces and Profits of a Fishing Ship, - 382 



Sect. 1. Some account of the Whale-fishery, as at 

 present conducted in Davis' Strait, and 

 on the Coast of Labrador, - ib. 



2. Comparative View of the Fisheries of Green- 



land and Davis' Strait, - 390 



3. Statements of Expences and Profits on some 



Whale-fishing Voyages, - 393 



CHAP. VI.— Method of Extracting Oil and 



Preparing Whalehone, and Remarks on the 



uses to which the several products of the 



Whale- Fishery are applied, - 397 



Sect. 1. Description of the Premises and Apparatus 



used in extracting Oil out of Blubber, 397 



2. Process of Boiling Blubber or Extracting 



Oil, - - 400 



3. Description of Whale-Oil, and Remarks on 



the cause of its offensive smell, - 408 



4. Description of Whalebone, and of the Me- 



thod of Preparing it, - - 415 

 - 5. Remarks on the Uses to which the Oil, 

 Fenks, TaQs, Jawbones, and other pro- 

 duce of Whales are applicable, - 420 



CHAP. VH. — Narrative of Proceedings on 

 board of the Ship Esk, during a Whale- 

 Fishing Voyage to the coast of Spitzbergen, 

 in the year 1816, - - 438 



