242 
MARINE MAMMALS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN COAST. 
bered two hundred and thirty -seven, which were principally whalers of the larger 
class. It now has (1873) one hundred and twenty-nine. San Francisco, in 1853, 
had ten vessels in the business, but the present year there is but one legitimate 
whaling- craft sailing from that port. It may be regarded as a singular coinci- 
dence, that Boston and New York, which repeatedly, in former years, attempted, 
but failed, to successfully establish the whaling business at either port, have 
now (February 4th, 1873) six small vessels in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific 
whale-fishery. Marion has three small schooners, Beverly one brig, Dartmouth 
two ships, San Francisco one bark, which make up the whole American whaling- 
fleet of the present day, consisting of twenty -six ships, one hundred and twenty- 
five barks, twelve brigs, and thirty- eight schooners — in all, 47,378 tons. 
The following prices have been taken from the Merchants' Ifagazine, and the 
Whalemen s Shipping List of November, 1840; also from J. Ross Browne's work: 
Average Prices of Oil (per gallon) and Bone (per pound), from 1835 to 1872, inclusive. 
Year. 
1835. 
1836. 
1837. 
1838, 
1839. 
1810. 
1841 
1812 
1843. 
1844 
1845 
1846 
1847 
1848 
1849 
1850 
1851 
1852 
1853 
Sperm Oil. 
Wbale Oil. 
$0 84 
$0 36 
88 
44 
82 
33 
85 
32 
1 00 
35 
1 02^ 
30 
1 00 
30\ 
94 
31| 
73 
33f 
63 
344. 
00 \ 
304 
88 
m 
871 
33| 
1 ooj 
36 
1 09 
40 
1 20^ 
49 
1 27} 
451 
1 23| 
6Sj 
1 24f 
581 
Bone. 
$0 24 
25 
22 
19 
19 
18 
19 
19! 
23 
35| 
40 
33£ 
34 
31 
31J 
34J 
341 
50J 
344 
Ycar. 
1854. 
1855. 
1856. 
1857. 
1858 . 
1859. 
1860. 
1861. 
1862. 
1863. 
1864. 
1865. 
1866. 
1867. 
1868. 
1869. 
1870, 
1871 
1872. 
Sperm Oil. 
$i 
l 
l 
l 
l 
i 
l 
l 
l 
l 
l 
2 
2 
2 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
48| 
77 
02 
28£ 
21 
30-} 
414 
314 
424 
61 
78 
25 
55 
334. 
92 
78 
351 
35 
45} 
71 
794 
73} 
54 
48i 
49i 
44} 
59i 
95} 
1 28 
1 45 
1 21 
73} 
82 
1 01f 
67} 
60 
654 
§0 39} 
45} 
58 
96| 
92} 
85 
80} 
66 
82 
1 53 
1 80 
1 71 
1 37 
1 17i 
1 024 
124 
85 
70 
1 284 
Following, we give a tabular statement of the condition of the fishery for 
thirty- eight years, beginning in 1835 and ending in 1872, inclusive: 
