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-WHALE-FISHEllY from 1750 to 1784— Coutinued. 



Folger, for Nantucket, for permission to whale, 38. {Note. — Usual course of whale- 

 men, 38.) Opening of the Saint Lawrence and Belle Isle whaling-grouuil, and itrf 

 monopoly, 39. Petition of American oil merchants against unjust discriminations, 

 with statement of fishery, 39. (Note. — Names of 75 Nantucket whaling captains in 

 17G3, 39.) Influence of the colonial whale-fishery on English politics, 40. Nan- 

 tucket whalemen captured by French privateers, 41. Nantucket and Martha's 

 Vineyard, 42. Further misfortunes to the Vineyard whaling fleet, 42. Boston's 

 share in the business, 42. Whalemen lost, 42. (Xote. — Revival of fashions, 42.) 

 Long Island.— Three sloops fit from Sag Harbor in 1760, 43. (Note. — Sag Harbor 

 settled in 1630, 43.) Rhode Island.- Reports of whaling there in 1766, 43. Wil- 

 liamsburgh, Virginia, sends out a whaling-vessel, 43. Dartmouth invests in the 

 business, 43. {Note. — Ricketson's account ; accident to a Dartmouth man, 43.) 

 Extract from log of the whale-ship Betsey, 44. English governors claim a monop- 

 oly of the Saint Lawrence fisheries, to the exclusion of the colonists, 44. Their 

 orders, proclamations, and acts, and the efl^'ects upon colonial whaling, 45. {Note. — 

 Extracts from the Boston News-Letter in 17G6, 45.) {Note. — The main features of 

 the fishing act of William III, 47.) The misdeeds of whalemen, as recited by Pal- 

 liser, doubtless exaggerated, 48. Whaling at the southward, 49. Providence, New 

 York, and Newport, their connection with the business, 49. {Note. — Reported suc- 

 cess of the people of Nantucket, 49.) Resumption of the Saint Lawrence fishery, 49. 

 Casualties there, 50. {Notes. — Extract from log of the Tryall, of Dartmouth ; affray 

 of Indians on a Nantucket vessel, 50.) The whaling fleet of 1768, .50. {Note. — Nan- 

 tucket's fleet ; fight between the crew of a Marblehead brig and a press-gang, 50.) 

 From 1770 to 1775, community of interests among the inhabitautsof Nantucket, 51. 

 {Notes. — Whalemen fitted from Middletown, Conn.; method of settling voyages;. 

 Nantucket's home-workmen interested in the result of the voyages, 51.) {Notes. — 

 Difference between "head" and "body" oil, 52. Description of cutting-in a sperm 

 whale, 52. Restrictions on colonial commerce, 53.) Capture of whalemen by 

 French and Spanish privateers in 1771, 53. Crews of two Nantucket whaling- 

 sloops capture a piratical ship, 54. American navigators and the Gulf Stream ;. 

 English self-sufficiency, 55. The course of the Gulf Stream first charted by a Nan- 

 tucket captain, 55. Whalemen captured by Spanish cruisers in 1772, 56. {Note. — 

 The Rhode Island fleet : a fish story, 56.) Whaling on the coast of Africa, 56. 

 Massacre of part of the crew of a Boston brig, 56.. Captures by the French, 56. 

 {Note. — Dates of the fishery in different localities, 56.) The Portuguese mode of 

 obtaining experience in 1774, 57. {Notes. — Infrtquency of going into a port of 

 some whaling-ships; description of a "snow," 57.) Statisticsof the fishery in 1774, 

 57. {Note. — Detailed statement of the business from 1771 to 1775, 57.) The Revo- 

 lution, 58. Massachusetts the focus of insurrection, 58. The fi.^heries first to feel 

 the shock of war, 58. {Note. — Importance of colonial trade to England, 58.) Efforts 

 of the English government to reduce New England by restrictions upon her fish- 

 eries, 59. Strenuous fight of the minority in Parliament, 59. Petitions against the 

 restraining act, 59. {Note. — Evidence introduced by the opponents of the act, 59.) 

 Arguments against the passage of the act, 60. Burke's eloquence, 60. {Note. — 

 The Falkland Islands, 61.) Relief for Nantucket, 62. Massachusetts also passes a 

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