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getic and widely extended prosecution of the 

 sperm whale fishery, the number of spermaceti 

 candle manufactories is now greatly increased. 

 In 1834 it was estimated that there were sixty 

 of them constantly in operation, and the quan- 

 tity of sperm candles in that year made was 

 three millions of pounds. 



For the well-deserved commendation of this 

 branch of American industry, all persons in 

 any way connected with it will be as pleased, 

 as we in the Commodore Preble were, at the 

 way in which New England enterprise was 

 toasted at the New England Society's dinner 

 of 1848, in New York. We had an account of 

 the Anniversary of the Pilgrims' Landing, and 

 the festivities of the occasion, in a paper to 

 which we were treated by an outward-bound 

 whale ship which we fell in with. How 

 greedily we devoured it, none but a news- 

 hungry whaleman knows. The toast was 

 ' Now England enterprise: It grapples with 

 tlu' monsters of the Pacific to illuminate our 

 1 lings, and with the problems of science to 

 -ii our minds." 



