136 ALLEN: NEW ENGLAND WHAI,EBONE WHALES. 



1847. — The Inquirer of April 21st, notes that five whales were taken off the east coast of 

 Long Island, on one day of the previous week, between Southampton and East Hampton. 



1848. — About the last week of January several whales were seen off Long Island and 

 one was killed near Southampton (Inquirer, Jan. 28, 1848). 



About the middle of April, a considerable number of Right Whales were seen off the Massa- 

 chusetts coast, near Plymouth, and five vessels went ofT in pursuit, but with what success does 

 not appear. At the same time a few were seen off the eastern coast of Long Island, of which 

 two were killed, one near Binghampton, the other near Southampton (Inquirer, Apl. 17, 1848). 



1850. — A large Right Whale was captured during the last week of January, in Province- 

 town Harbor (Inquirer, Jan. 28, 1850) ; a second, yielding about fifty barrels of oil, was taken 

 a week later (about the first of February) in the same harbor (Inquirer, Feb. 4, 1850). 



About November 1st, a Right Whale appeared, again in Provincetown Harbor, and after 

 a hard fight in which one boat was damaged and the helmsman injured, was finally killed. 

 It yielded about sixty barrels of oil (Inquirer, Nov. G, 1850). 



1851. — A whale about 44 feet long was captured March 1st, near the shore at Southampton, 

 Long Island. It was estimated to yield only about thirty barrels (Inquirer, Mar. 10, 1851). 

 A second Right Whale was taken at the same place about two weeks later (Inquirer, Mar. 21, 

 1851). From the fact that it yielded but twenty-five barrels of oil, it was probably a calf. 



1852. — About the middle of May, a large Right Whale was captured in Massachusetts 

 Bay by a crew from Provincetown. It yielded seventy-five barrels of oil, the whalebone was 

 eight feet long, and the total value of oil and bone was about <J2000 (Inquirer, May 17, 1852). 



During the month of May, five Right Whales were killed off Southampton, Long Island, 

 three in the first nine days of the month, and two on a single day near its close. One of these 

 yielded forty barrels, the two last together, seventy barrels (Inquirer, May 17, and June 4, 

 1852). 



According to the Inquirer of October 13, 1852, two "whales" were captured by a Province- 

 town whaling schooner in Massachusetts Bay in the early part of October. Though there 

 is no conclusive evidence as to the species, they were probably Right Whales. 



1853. — This season seems to have been very favorable for whales on the east coast of 

 Long Island. During March, the schooner Corivin of Greenport, L. I., made her first trip 

 of about two weeks whaling, and although whales were seen every day, the sea was so rough 

 that but one was killed. This yielded forty-one barrels of oil. On her second cruise, the 

 Corwin captured a whale April 1st, that made seventy or eighty barrels of oil. On March 19th, 

 a Right Whale was struck by a boat's crew from Amagansett, but was not taken (Inquirer, 

 April 13, 1853). About the middle of April, a large whale rated at forty-five barrels, was killed 

 off Southampton, Long Island (Inquirer, April 18, 1853). 



The Inquirer of May 18, 1853, relates that several whales had been seen and chased among 

 the vessels at anchor in Provincetown Harbor during the spring and that three or four vessels 



