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ral ships were lost ; in 1762, it was also indifferent; 

 and in 1764 it was again bad ; many of the British 

 ships returned home clean, and few of them made a 

 saving voyage. The Dutch, at the same time, fish- 

 ed with little better success. 



From this time (1764), the advantages and regula- 

 tions attached to the northern whale-fisheries were 

 continued, by act of Parliament, to the 25th of De- 

 cember 1767, from thence to the end of the follow- 

 ing session of Parliament, and afterwards to the 

 25th December 1770*. 



The King of Prussia interesting himself in the 

 Greenland whale-fishery, caused some ships to-be 

 equipped from Embden in the year 1768f. 



Some new regulations were introduced in Parlia- 

 ment in 1771, for the whale-fishers; the principal fea- 

 tures of which consisted in the extension of the privi- 

 leges of the nextpreceding acts, to every British built 

 substantial vessel, manned, provided, and sent out, 

 agreeably to the usual requisitions, for a term of five 

 years ; after which, the other privileges being the 

 same, the bounty was to be reduced to 30s. per ton 

 for another term of five years ; and to 20s. per ton 

 for a third term of the same duration. The whole 

 a\vards and bounties of this act were then, that is 

 in 1786, to terminate. It was also involved, that 



* 4th Geo. III. c. 2.2. ; and Sth Geo. III. c. 27- 

 -•■ F.ncv. Brit. Art. Cclohsy. 



