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THK \YIIALK FISHERY. 



Table showing monthly receipts of oil and trha-h'boiti'fruw flu' n-lmling fleet of the Untied Stales from 1868 to 1880 Cont'cl. 



RECAPITULATION. (Total receipts each year.) 



The following statement shows the quantities of oil and bone landed by the American fleet and 

 the total value of the same from 1804 to 1880.* The statistics are compiled from Starbuck's His 

 tory of the Whale Fishery and from the Whalemen's Shipping List. The total yield of this fishery 

 for the entire period is seen to be 166,604,496 gallons of sperm oil, 270,727,205 gallons of whale oil, 

 and 76.386,148 pounds of whalebone, having a total value of $340,204,873. 



Scammon estimates that sperm whales will average 25 and right whales 60 barrels of oil, and 

 of the former 10 and of the latter 20 per cent, of those killed are lost. Upon that basis the above 

 amounts of oil would represent the slaughter of about 232,790 sperm and 196,00ti right whales. 



"The following additional statistics have been received since this statement was compiled : 



