APPENDIX I. 
STATISTICS OF WHALING. 
Table I, compiled from Goode’s work and from the 
‘‘Whalemen’s Shipping List,”’ shows the tonnage of vessels 
employed in the whale fishery from 1794 to 1842, and 
both the number of the vessels and their tonnage from 
1843 to date. These figures are interesting in a number 
of ways. First of all they show the limited extent and 
unsettled conditions of the fishery until after the close 
of the war of 1812. Second, they give a good idea of the 
rapid growth up to 1847, and finally they serve well to 
illustrate the less rapid, yet steady, decline from about 
1850 onward. 
Studied in connection with Table I, Table II gives a 
still more detailed conception of the various phases of 
the history of whaling. Table II gives the records of 
clearance of whaling vessels from the different ports from 
1784 to 1840, compiled from Starbuck’s tables; and the 
vessels owned at the different ports from 1840 to 1905, 
compiled from the ‘‘Shipping List.” The different points 
worthy of attention are (1) The relatively large number 
of ports from which whaling vessels were sent immedi- 
ately after the Revolution, but from most of which 
whaling was carried on only intermittently or was sus- 
pended entirely until after the War of 1812. (2) The 
uninterrupted prosecution of the fishery year after year 
from New Bedford and Nantucket, except during the 
second war with England, and (3) The increasing rivalry 
for supremacy between these two ports, soon decided in 
favor of New Bedford. (4) The reawakening of the busi- 
ness at many ports from 1818 to 1820 and the years 
following. (5) The increasing size of the individual fleets 
