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52 years, comprised between 1767 and 1818, in- 

 clusive, was 460 sail, and their cargoes amounted 

 to 2921 whales, (an average of 6^ p(7r ship), besides 

 a great number of seals, bears, narwhales, and sea- 

 horses. Of this number of whales, considerably- 

 above half have been taken by five ships now in 

 the trade, of which ships, it may be remarked, 

 that three of them have performed 124 voyages 

 to the whale-fishery, without having missed a sin- 

 gle season since they commenced *. " In ten 

 successive voyages, the Resolution," (commanded 

 eight years by my Father f , and two by myself), 

 " obtained no less than 249 whales, yielding 2034 

 tons of oil ; and the Henrietta, Kearsley, brought 

 home, in ten voyages, ending with 1816, 213 

 whales, producing 1561 tons of oil :L" In the last 

 23 years, the Whitby fleet, averaging 73? ships 

 per year, have procured 1879 whales, which yield- 

 ed 17,643 tons of oil: and, in the last fourteen 

 years, 116 ships, reckoning repeated voyages, have 



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* The Volunteer has been 47 voyages ; the Heni-ietta 43 ; 

 and the Lively 34 ; besides their voyages in the present year 

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f My Father, in 28 voyages, in which lie has commanded a 

 ship on the fishery, lias brought home 498 whales ; producing 

 4246 tons of oil ; value, including whalebone, above 150,000/. 

 all fished for, under his own direction, out of the sea ! 



t Young's Hist, of Whitby, p. 567. 



