INDEX. 



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 Wellflcet, Mass., whale-fishery statistics, 1771 to 



1775 116 



whaling fleet of 172 



Well-smacks, lobster (569, 683 



Wells, Me., lobster fishery at 770 



lobsters at 708 



Westerly, K. I., natural oyster beds in 511 



Western Ground, sperm whales on 9 



West Indies, humpback whales at 23 



Wcstport, Conn., oyster planting at 535 



Westport, Mass., census of whaling fleet of 173 



lobster fishery at 783 



whaling fleet of 3,172 



voyages from, 1H70 to 



1880 176-192 



Westport, Me., lobsters at 726, 761 



Westport Point, Me., lobsters at 707 



Westport River, Massachusetts, oysters in 510 



West Tisbury, Mass., lobster laws at 727 



lobstersat 710 



Weymouth, Mass., oysters at 509 



Whale blubber as food 62, 63 



Whale-boat, color of 242 



cost of 59 



dimensions of 241 



durability of 242 



equipment of 240 



for shore whaling at New Zealand 211 



general description of 240 



locomotive appliances of 241 



lost from vessel 276 



material of construction 241 



method of transporting 242 



officers and men of 224 



outfit of. 214,217 



price of 242 



racing with 260 



riggingthe 230 



selection of crew of 229 



spare 245 



speed of 241 



steam 246 



used in seal fishery XL^ 426 



weight of *_ 242 



Whalebone, Arctic, price of 147 



statistics of 84 



average price, Io21 to 18 170 



each month 1868 to 1880. 167 



bounty on 33 



bowhead 5 



exports of, 1758 to 1763 105 



in 1763 104 



1770 116 



1865tol884 167 



finback 5 



first brought to England 192 



from Davis Strait 99-101 



finback whales 42 



North Pacific, statistics of 84 



grades of 5 



greatest yield in 1853 146 



home consumption, 1865 to 1884 167 



humpback 5, 56 



value of 147 



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 Whalebone in Gulf of Saint Lawrence 216 



Japan Sea 156 



monthly receipts of, 1868 to 1880 168 



northwest 5 



preparation of 5 



price of 216 



Arctic 159,161,162 



South Sea 159,161,162 



proportion from different oceans 8 



quantity from different grounds 8 



taken by each vessel 175-192 



receipts, 1865 to 1784 167 



size of 5 



South Sea 5 



statistics of, at New Zealand 



in 1880 4 



taken at Provincetown 3 



by Dundee steamers 202 



Scotch steamers 198-200 



taxes paid in 37 



total production in 1872 154 



uses of 5 



yearly receipts and value, 1820 to 1880. 170 



Whale, bones of, used for soap-making 57 



captured in Charleston Harbor 49 



fishery, accidents in 272 



apparatus of 218, 247-290 



capture 247-255 



in Norway 196 



Arctic 204 



at Barbadoes 214 



Atlantic Ocean 148 



at Mozambique 136 



boiling and stowing oil 285 



bounty in . . 32, 66, 67, 102, 104, 131, 197, 207 



British 6g 



by Biscayans 192 



Dutch 7 



Makah Indians 396 



capital in 3,145, 173 



causes of decline of 5 



census statistics of fleet for 1880.. . 173 



code of signals in 257 



condition of, in 1775 1 16 



1789 67 



cruising grounds 7-24 



cutting in and trying out 277-288 



tackle 280 



dangers from ice 75 



of 58,515 



Dauish 71 



Davis Strait 94 



decline of, in 1766 136 



depredations by privateers on 113 



development of sperm 63 



division of profits of 291 



Dutch 193 



early care of products 31 



history of American 32-34 



laws regulating 28 



effects of, on cod fishing 108 



Revolutionary war on. .. 118 



war of 1755 on 105 



1812 ou .. 141 



