246 MARINE MAMMALS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN COAST. 
globe ; while others have been sold into the merchant service, or broken up at 
home. San Francisco Bay and Sacramento River were the last ports many of the 
old ships made. The Charleston Bar swallowed up the stone fleet, which was 
chiefly made up of old whalers ; and the cruisers, during the Rebellion, destroyed 
many valuable vessels while at sea ; and, last of all, the ice of the Arctic made a 
fell swoop upon the northern fleet, in the fall of 1871. 
