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SevcMity-cijAlit vessels clcjinMl this yeiir lor (ho \vh;iliii<jf-jj:it)iiii(ls. Of 

 these 50 wont, to tho (Jull' ot .St. Luwroiioo. Tho produoo of tho lish(My 



was 0,410 hanols of oil, v:iIuo(l at $H)L*,r)IS.K). A schooiior, 



IJiokfonl iiiastor, was h)st on Soal Islands. Tho sloop I'olly, from 

 Martha's Vinovard, was lost whilo wlialin^j;' at tho southward, and her 

 crow t)f thirtoon nion porishod with hor. A sloop from Nantuokot was 

 taUou by a privatoor whilo whalinj'' noar llu> (lull St roam. Anioufj; tho 

 captains who sailed woro, Shubacl Uuiikor, lU'iijaiuiii Paddock, Ilonry 

 Fol^or, and Nathan Collin. 



Moro than SO vessels sailed this year from Ma,ssachusotLs for tho (iulf 

 of St. Lawrence. 



Sovonty-two vessels sailed this year, r(>turnin^ with 1 1,!)S;; barrels of 

 oil, valued at $131,1.}.")..'>8. One of those vessels was coniniandod by 

 Jonathan Noqcis, of Darlmoulii. Whih^ fast to on(^ whale tho boat 

 which ('ai)tain Noii'ors headed was struck by a sooond, aiul tlio! captain 

 received injuries from which he died a few days afti^r. A brij;- from 

 Nantucket, Solomon (iardnor, master, was lost. 



Oiu* hundred and oru^ V(\ssoIs sailed in 17(ir>, and (ho pioduco was 

 11,511^ barrels of oil, valued at !!<lL'r),OL'0.;)L'. A now whaling- sloop from 

 Dartnu)uth was run down and sunk by another whah'inan IVom tho 

 same i)ort. Tho majority of tho vessels lished in tho (Iulf of St. I^aw- 

 rence and Straits of iJolIeislo. 



One hundi'cd and eij^htoon vess(>ls, of an av«M'a^o of TH tonsoacli, wont 

 whaliui;- IVom iNantucket, producinj;- 11,0()!> barrels of oil, \altu'(l at 

 !|lliO,OS;;.L>l. Cai)tain IVler Wells arrived at r.ostou, Auj^iist IS, aiul 

 between September 2.") and October '2 (juito a number of whalemen 

 arrived at the same i>ort. 1^'rom oiu^ of them the son of the ca])tain 

 (Clark) was lost whilo striliin;;- a sperm-whale off Ooor^o's J>an!is. Sev- 

 eral vessels also sailed IVom Warren, \l. 1., most of them j^oing 

 southward, and on<! of them from the Westein Islands, brin^in;j: in 

 over 1500 barrels of oil. Newport, sent sonu^ vessels too. 



Nantucket sent 108 vessels, avoraginj>- 75 tons each, producinj;- 1(),5G1 

 barrels of oil, worth $170,S52.d(l. Two k1ooi)s, one comniamlod by Cap- 

 tain Coleman and tho other by Captain Collin, both of Nantucket, were 

 lost iu the Straits of lielleisle. 



