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whalers may generally expect to find them, just 

 as the shad, salmon, herring, and other fish are 

 periodically found. He is endeavouring to work 

 out this conclusion, and to fix the localities of 

 whales' resorts by a comparison of the logs of 

 a vast number of whalers. It is easy to see 

 that, if he should succeed, it will be of great 

 importance to the whaling interest, as it will 

 reduce the expense of outfits by shortening the 

 time of voyages, and making their results more 

 sure and speedy, 



If we inquire into the probable duration of 

 the North-west whaling, including this Arctic 

 opening, there seems good reason to believe, 

 from the extent of ocean it embraces, greater 

 than all the other cruising grounds together, 

 that it will continue good at least twenty or 

 twenty-five years from its commencement. An 

 experienced captain thinks that as there is not, 

 nor is likely to be, any bay whaling on this 

 cruising ground, the whales will be less con- 

 stantly hunted, and nearly all the calves born 

 will arrive at an age when they can take care of 

 themselves before the old whales are encountered 



