156 WHALE-FISHERY. 



afforded a useful employment to a vast number of 

 labourers and artificers, and it gave to tlie interior 

 trade a new circulation and increased activity ; 

 and the second was, that while it conferred an ac- 

 tual benefit on the adventurers, and through tliem 

 on the State, it likewise occasioned an improve- 

 ment in the general relations of commerce with fo- 

 reign powers. 



For estimating, as nearly as may be, the amount 

 of the emoluments derived from the whale-fishery, 

 by the individuals speculating in the trade, during 

 the period detailed by Gerard van Sante, it may be 

 divided into eleven equal portions of ten consecutive 

 years, each of which, in the " Nieuwe Beschryving 

 der ^^^alvisvangst," and in the " Histoire des 

 Pechcs," forms a distinct table ; but for the sake of 

 brevity, 1 shall include the whole in one point of 

 view. 



Tabular View, &c. 



