420 WHALE-FISHERY. 



to two or more hairs, is whalebone ; though, in factr 

 the hair itself is actually the same substance as that 

 of which the whalebone is composed. 



SECT. V. 



Remarks on the Uses to which the Oil, Fenks, 

 Tails, Jaw-hones, IVJialebone, and other pro- 

 duce of Whales, are applicable. 



1. Oil. — The oil produced from the blubber of the- 

 whale, in its most common state of preparation, is 

 used for a variety of purposes. It is largely used in 

 the lighting of the streets of towns, and the interior 

 of places of worship, houses, shops, manufactories, 

 &c. ; it is extensively employed in the manufacture 

 of soft soap, as well as in the preparing of leather 

 and coarse woollen cloths ; it is applicable in the 

 manufacture of coarse varnishes and paints ; in 

 which, when duly prepared, it affords a strength of 

 body more capable of resisting the v/eather, than 

 paint mixed in the usual way ^vith vegetable oil* » 



* Mr Thomas Vandevham of London, communicated to the 

 Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and 

 Commerce, " An account of processes for preparing cheap and 

 durable paints with fish-oil ;" for which communication, th& 

 Society voted him the Silver Medal, and a premium of Twenty 

 Guineas. (See Repertory of Arts, vol. x. 2d series, p. Il6.). 



