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J. — Recorded summary of importation of oil and bone, <?c. — Concluded. 



t Deficit, as per note at held of table. 

 Note. — 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 these killed are lost. Upon that basis the above 

 amounts of oil wou"* represout tho slaughter of 225,521 sperm, and 193,522 right whales. 



