130 WHALE-FISHERY. 



From the year 1810 to 1818 inclusive, 824 ships 

 sailed from England to the whale-fisheries of Green- 

 land and Davis' Straits, and 361 from Scotland*. 

 In the four years ending with 1817, 392 vessels 

 sailed from England to these northern fisheries, the 

 amount of whose cargoes was 3348 whales, besides 

 seals, narwhales, bears and seahorses ; and the pro- 

 duce 35,824 tons of oil, and about 1806 tons of 

 whalebone, together with a quantity of skins. The 

 average quantity of oil produced ^^r ship on each 

 voyage, was 91.4 tons, and about 4 tons 12 cwL 

 of whalebone. From Scotland there sailed in the 

 course of the same period of four years, 194 vessels to 

 the whale-fisheries, the amount of whose cargoes was 

 1682 whales, &c., and the produce 18,684 tons of 

 oil, and about 891 tons of whalebone, besides skins. 



* The number of ships fitted out each year from England 

 and Scotland, was as follows : 



1810 1811 1212 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 



From England, 75 76 83 94 97 98 97 100 104 



Scotland, 22 22 27 43 46 49 49 50 53 



The number of vessels sent out from each of the different 



ports of England and Scotland during the above period of nine 



years, including repeated voyages, was as follows : 



