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Whaling Ports. Whaling Grounds. 



nected with the American whale fishery, that 

 property to the amount of $70,000,000 was in- 

 volved in it, and that seventy thousand persons 

 derived from it their chief subsistence ; a valu- 

 ation 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 thousand 

 three hundred and five tons. All other ports, 

 including sixty-six ships, or twenty-three thou- 

 sand tons from Nantucket, give ninety-three 

 thousand eight hundred and eight, in all one 

 hundred and ninety-six thousand one hundred 

 and thirteen tons. The exports of oil to foreign 

 ports, in 1848, from New Bedford, were seven- 

 teen thousand and ninety -three barrels. 



To those who are in quest of definite inform- 

 ation concerning the various cruising grounds 

 and the times of finding whales there, the clos- 

 ing chapter of the Annals of the United States 

 Exploring Squadron is the most satisfactory of 

 any thing to be found. It should be printed in 

 pamphlet form, and kept in the chart-box of 

 every whaler. Other interesting matter, of a 

 miscellaneous character, pertaining to the whale 

 fishery, is to be found in the appendix to a work 



