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The Whaleman's El Dorado. News from the Arctic. 



meridian of one hundred and seventy east lon- 

 gitude, or about fifty degrees. The largest 

 whales are said to have been found between 

 fifty and sixty degrees north latitude, and from 

 one hundred and forty-five to one hundred and 

 eighty degrees west longitude. At the Fox Isl- 

 ands, in latitude fifty-two degrees north, sperm 

 whales of the largest size have been found as 

 well as right, and near the peninsula of Alaska 

 they are very numerous. 



Intelligence from the northern whaling ground 

 of latest date shows that the Arctic Ocean has 

 been entered at Behring's Straits by our in- 

 trepid American whalemen. Captain Roys, of 

 the bark Superior, from Sag Harbor, is thus re- 

 ported in the Sandwich Island Honolulu Friend : 

 " I entered the Arctic Ocean about the middle 

 of July, and cruised from continent to conti- 

 nent, going as high as latitude seventy, and saw 

 whales wherever I went, cutting in my last 

 whale on the 23d of August, and returning, 

 through Behring's Straits, on the 28th of the 

 same month. On account of powerful currents, 

 thick fogs, the near vicinity of land and ice, 

 combined with the imperfection of charts and 

 want of information respecting this region, I 



