COMPARATIVE VIEW. — BlUTAIX. 121 



The average cargo procured per ship on each 

 voyage, produced 96.3 tons of oil, and about 4 tons 

 12 cwt. of whalebone ; being the same quantity of 

 whale-bone, but 4.9 tons of oil more than the aver- 

 age procured by the English fleet during the same 

 time*. It therefore appears, that of late years, 

 the people of Scotland have sent out their full pro- 

 portion of ships on the fisheries ; and with a degree 

 of success which has been equal, if not superior, to 

 that of the English fishers. 



The British whale-fishery of 1814 was uncom- 

 monly prosperous, especially at Greenland ; 76 ships 

 on this fishery having procured 1437 whales, be- 

 sides seals, &c., the produce of which in oil only, 

 was 12,132 tons, being an average of 18io fisli, or 

 159-6 tons of oil per ship ! The average fishery 

 of Davis' Straits the same season, was about one- 

 third less per ship. The gross value of the freights 

 of the British Greenland and Davis' Straits fleets, 

 (bounties included,) estimating the oil at 32 /. per 

 ton, which was about the average price, and the 



• These results together, with all the others immediately 

 following, which refer to the four years ending with 1817, 1 have 

 extracted out of an interesting " Account of the number of 

 Fish, with the produce of Oil and Bone brought by each ship 

 from the Greenland and Davis' Straits Whale-fisheries," for the 

 years 1814,-15,-16,-17, made up, with great care, and publish- 

 ed yearly, by Messrs Devereux and Lambert, London. 



