MASSACHUSETTS: NANTUCKET DISTRICT. 



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Detailed statimtnl of tlie quantities and rallies of the products Continued. 



so. NAXTUCKET AND ITS FISHERIES. 



THE FISHERIES IN 1879. The village of Nantucket is situated at the central point of the 

 northern shore of the island, near the mouth of a large harbor which extends in a northeasterly 

 direction for several miles. About two hundred and fifty of the men are fishermen. The village 

 contains churches, several hotels, numerous stores and shops, and two fish-markets. Several of 

 the streets are paved, and a number of the buildings are of biick, so that the place, in a limited 

 area, presents the appearance of a small city. Communication is had with the mainland by boat 

 every day during the summer and three times per week in winter. The boat touches at Martha's 

 Vineyard and at Wood's IIoll and New Bedford. There is a small hamlet at Siascousett, at the 

 southeastern part of the island, and the islands of Tuckerunck and Muskegct are inhabited, at 

 least in summer, by a few fishermen. 



The principal fisheries now carried on at Nantucket are for cod, haddock, pollock, bluefish, 

 scup, eels, lobsters, and clams. The fishery for ccd, haddock, and pollock usually begins late in 

 September, or at the beginning of October, and lasts until January if the weather permits. It 

 ceases then, but begins anew late in March, and is continued to June. About two hundred men 

 are engaged in it. They go 1 or 2 miles, sometimes even 4 miles, off the south shore in dories. 

 About one-half of the men go alone in their boats, but the remainder go by twos, so that the num- 



