ACCOUNT 



OF THE 



NORTHERN WHALE-FISHERIEai, 

 CHAPTER I. 



CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE NORTHER!^ 

 WHALE-FISHERIES. 



AN the early ages of the world, when beasts of 

 prey began to multiply and annoy the vocations of 

 man, the personal danger to which he must have been 

 occasionally exposed, would oblige him to contrive 

 some means of defence. For this end he would na- 

 turally be induced, both to prepare weapons, and 

 also to preconceive plans for resisting the disturbers 

 of his peace. His subsequent rencounters with 

 beasts of prey would therefore be more frequently 

 successful ; not only in effectually repelling them 

 when they sliould attack liim, but also in some in- 

 stances in accomplishing their destruction. By 63?.- 



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