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Table showing the receipts from tlie American fleet, the home consumption, and the exports of whalebone from 1865 to 1884. 



Table' allowing the value of oil and bone landed by the American whaling fleet, the value of the proportion consumed in the 

 United States, and the ratue of the proportion exported during the yean 1865 to 1880. 



Table sluiwing the average prices of sperm and whale oil per gallon and whalebone each month from 1868 to 1880. * 



* The following additional data have been received since the above wg 

 m 1882, $1.06; iii 1883, 97 cents; in 1884, 85 cents. Whale oil in 1881, 48cen 

 bone per pound in 1881, $1.63 ; in 1882, $1.71 ; in 1883, $2.87 : in 1884, $3.55. 



compiled : Average price of sperm oil per gallon in 1881, 

 its ; in 1882, 58J cents ; in 1883, 54 cents; in 1884, 56 cents 



88 cents ; 

 Whale. 



