162 THE WHALE AND 



Sperm Caudle Manufactories. American Industry. 



the year 1761 there were eight in New En- 

 gland and one in Philadelphia. Owing to the 

 increased influx of sperm, by reason of the en- 

 ergetic 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 then 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 have been at 

 the way in which New England enterprise was 

 toasted at the New England Society's last din- 

 er in New York. There is an account of the 

 Anniversary of the Pilgrims' Landing, and the 

 festivities of the occasion, in a paper to which 

 we have been treated from an outward-bound 

 whale ship just fallen in with. How greedily 

 we have devoured it, none but a news-hungry 

 whaleman knows. " New England enterprise : 

 It grapples with the monsters of the Pacific 

 to illuminate our dwellings, and with the prob- 

 lems of science to enlighten our minds." 





