10 NEW ENGLAND WHALE FISHERY. 



yearly value for nine years, $8,098,360. There 

 was a falling off in 1848, from the previous 

 year, of thirteen thousand barrels of sperm, 

 thirty- three thousand barrels of right- whale, and 

 one million pounds of bone. Nineteen years 

 ago it was estimated, by taking into account all 

 the investments connected with the American 

 whale fishery, that property to the amount of 

 $70,000,000 was involved in it, and that 

 seventy thousand persons derived from it their 

 chief subsistence ; a valuation which should be 

 much augmented rather than diminished at the 

 present time. 



The New Bedford district now supplies to 

 the whale fishery one hundred and two thou- 

 sand three hundred and five tons of shipping. 

 All other ports, including sixty- six ships, or 

 twenty- three thousand tons from Nan tucket, 

 give ninety- three thousand eight hundred and 

 eight, in all one hundred and ninety- six thou- 

 sand one hundred and thirteen tons. The 

 exports of oil to foreign ports in 1848, from 

 New Bedford, were seventeen thousand and 

 ninety- three barrels. 



