i8o 



A. D. 1788. 



The following is a continuadon of the view of the fhipping employed 

 in the Greenland whale fiCiery, and of the funis expended in bounties 

 for the encouragement of it after the year 1770. (See V. iii, p. 511). 



From England. 



Bounty ] 



s£27,S9i 



29,089 

 31 231 

 37,663 

 54,978 

 52,028 

 30 942 

 29,230 

 25,294 

 21,584 

 14,379 

 21,156 

 27,017 

 53,102 

 84,122 

 101,996 

 95,033 

 9376s 



War appears to have had a confiderable efFed: in diminifhing the 

 number of the Britifh whale-nlTiing vefTels. But the whale fifliery of 

 the Dutch, when they are at war with Great Britain, is totally Jufpended^ 

 or carried on under neutral flags. 



The following view of the progrefs of the Southern whale fifhery of 

 England from its commencement Ihows the number and tnnnage of the 

 veflels employed, the quantity of oil, &c. produced by it, and alfo the 

 bounties paid for the encouragement of it. Till the year 1781 all the 

 velTels belonged to London. No vefl'els have ever been fitted out from 

 Scotland for this fifherv. 



Bounty paid. 



,^2,400 

 1,500 

 500 

 2,000 

 1,-100 

 1,400 



3,600 

 1,700 

 2,400 

 5,500 

 3,900 



Sperma-ceti oil, 



tuns. hhd. gal. 

 O 



50 

 314 



400 



98 



315 



71 

 1O2 

 4,680 

 026 

 1,113 

 2,184 

 3,270 





 

 

 O 

 

 O 

 3 

 O 

 1 

 1 









 O 

 O 

 

 O 

 O 

 41 



7 

 25 

 33 



Whale fins, 



cwt. qr. lb 

 O O 



15 

 160 



120 



5Q 



37 



357 



1,389 



1,846 



O 





 1 

 2 

 1 

 3 



O 



11 

 



38 



Seal skins, 

 number. 



772 

 14,280 

 64,256 



* In this and fome of the following years the in due time. Alfo velTcIs above 300 tuns, which 



bounty on the Scottidi veflels does not eorrefpond were not employed in tlie Greenland fiihery before 



with the tunnage : and the reafon is, that fome of December 17S6, thenceforth received bounty ouly 



the veflels were loit in the Greenland feas, one was for 300. 

 taken, and one forfeited the bounty by not faihng 



