ADDRESS. 



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Ports. Vessels. 



New Bedford 154 



Nantucket 71 



Lynn 5 



Gloucester 1 



Portsmouth 4 



Warren 1 



Providence 2 



Mystic 3 



Green Port 3 



Hudson 11 



Newark,N.J. 1 



West Port 3 



Fairhaven . . , 31 



Rochester 4 



Falmouth 4 



Fall River 3 



Dorchester 4 



Newburyport 4 



Portland . . 1 



Ports. Vessels. 



Bristol 17 



New London 29 



Norwich 1 



New York 6 



Newburgh 3 



Wilmington, Del 3 



Dartmouth 4 



Wareham 1 



Edgarton 8 



Plymouth 4 



Salem 9 



Provincetown 1 



Wiscasset ......... 1 



Newport 9 



Stonington 3 



Sag Harbour . ....... 24 



Poughkeepsie ....... 4 



Bridgeport 2 



This immense fleet of four hundred and sixty sail, from forty 

 distinct ports, scattered along the seaboard of seven different 

 states, will average about three hundred and seventy-five tons 

 each ; making, in all, one hundred and seventy-two thousand tons 

 of shipping nearly one-tenth the whole tonnage of the United 

 States. 



The cost of these vessels may be put down from twenty to sixty 

 thousand dollars each say, on an average, forty thousand; which 

 requires the employment of an active capital of eighteen million 

 four hundred thousand dollars ! 



The exports of our fisheries were, during the past year, in whale 

 and fish oil, seven hundred and seventy-three thousand four hun- 

 dred and eighty-six dollars ; in spermaceti, fifty-two thousand five 

 hundred and thirty-one dollars ; in whalebone, fifty-five thousand 

 nine hundred and fifty-four dollars ; in spermaceti candles, two 

 hundred and eighty-four thousand and nineteen dollars : making, 

 in all, one million one hundred and sixty-five thousand nine hun- 

 dred and ninety dollars. Thus, not only supplying the home 

 market, but deriving from other nations an annual tribute in reward 

 of our own industry and far-reaching enterprise ! 



If we add to the above the capital and tonnage employed in the 

 transportation of oil to Europe, in return cargoes, and in the coast 



