HISTORY AND DETAILS OF WHALING. 



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Places. 



New Bedford . 

 Dartmouth ... 



Sippican 



Westport 



Wareham 

 Sandwich 

 Fairhaven. . . . 

 Mattapoisett. . 

 Nantucket.... 

 Edgartown . . . 

 Holmes's Hole 

 Falmouth .... 

 Provincetown , 



Orleans , 



Beverly , 



Salem , 



Lynn , 



Fall River 



Warren, R. I.., 



Newport 



Providence 

 New London . . 

 Stonington .... 



Greenport 



Mystic 



Sag Harbor... . 

 Cold Spring . . . 

 San Francisco. 



Ships. 



209* 

 4 



1 



36 

 1 

 32 

 10 

 2 

 2 

 1 



Barks. 



1 

 32 

 3 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 3 

 4 



128* 

 6 



17 



1 



12 

 10 



4 



4 



1 



1 



4 



1 



3 



1 



1 



3 

 10 



4 



14 

 3 

 7 

 2 

 9 

 2 

 1 



Brigs. 



1 

 1 



1 



2 



Sch'rs. 



2 



4 



1 

 1 

 2 

 3 

 1 



16 

 1 



Total. 



12 



2 



4 



337 



10 



3 



17 



1 



2 



49 



12 



39 



17 



5 



3 



22 



4 



3 



1 



1 



3 



15 



4 



1 



63 



6 



10 



6 



18 



5 



13 



Tonn. 



122,000 



2,698 



319 



3,989 



347 



292 



15,927 



3,281 



12,860 



4,986 



1,349 



1,111 



2,792 



638 



616 



323 



216 



814 



5,025 



1,206 



298 



19,176 



1,949 



2,958 



1,840 



5,252 



2,129 



2,500 



The whole number of vessels employed in the whale 



fishery in this country, as before reported, is . . 670 



Number of ships, 358 



Number of barks, 259 



Number of brigs 17 



Number of schooners 46 



The tonnage may be put down at 220,000. 



Value of property, at $100 per ton, $20,000,000. 



The number of seamen engaged in this business, allowing 



30 for each ship, 24 for a bark, 20 for a brig, and 18 for a 



schooner, would be more than 20,000. 



Importations of sperm and whale oil and whalebone into the 



United States in 1856 are as follows : — 



* Ships reckoned at 400 tons, and harks at 300. 



