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-WHALE-FISHERY from 1750 to 1784— Continued. 



Folger, for Nantucket, for permission to whale, 38. (Note. — Usual course of whale- 

 men, 38.) Opening of the Saint Lawrence and Belle Isle whaling-ground, and its 

 monopoly, 39. Petition of American oil merchants against unjust discriminations, 

 with statement of fishery, 39. (Xote.— Names of 75 Nantucket whaling captains in 

 1763, 39.) Influence of the colonial whale-fishery on English politics, 40. Nan- 

 tucket whalemen ca*ptured hy French privateers, 41. Nantucket and Martha's 

 Vineyard, 42. Further misfortunes to the Vineyard whaling fleet, 42. Boston's 

 share iu the husiuess, 42. Whalemen lost, 42. (Xote. — Revival of fashions, 42.) 

 Long Island.— Three sloops fit from Sag Harhor iu 1760, 43. (Note. — Sag Harbor 

 settled in 1630, 43.) Rhode Island. — Reports of whaling there in 1766, 43. Wil- 

 liamsburgh, Virginia, sends out a whaling-vessel, 43. Dartmouth invests in the 

 business, 43. (Xote. — Ricketsou's account ; accident to a Dartmouth man, 43.) 

 Extract from log of the whale-ship Betsey, 44. English governors claim a monop- 

 oly of the Saint Lawrence fisheries, to the exclusion of the colonists, 44. Their 

 orders, proclamations, and acts, and the effects upon colonial whaling, 45. (Xote. — 

 Extracts from the Boston News-Letter in 1766, 45.) (Xote.— The main features of 

 the fishing act of William III, 47.) The misdeeds of whalemen, as recited by Pal- 

 liser, doubtless exaggerated, 48. Whaling at the southward, 49. Providence, New 

 York, and Newport, their connection with the business, 49. (Xote.— Reported suc- 

 cess of the people of Nantucket, 49.) Resumption of the Saiut Lawrence fishery, 49. 

 Casualties there, 50. (Xotes. — Extract from log of the Tryallf of Dartmouth ; affray 

 of Indians on a Nantucket vessel, 50.) The whaling fleet of 1768, 50. ( Xote. — Nan- 

 tucket's fleet ; fight between the crew of a Marblehead brig and a press-gang, 50.) 

 From 1770 to 1775, community of interests among the inhabitants of Nantucket, 51. 

 (Notes. — Whalemen fitted from Middletown, Conn.; method of settling voyages ; 

 Nantucket's home-workmen interested in the result of the voyages, 51.) (Xotes. — 

 Difference between " head" and " body " oil, 52. Description of cutting-in a, sperm 

 whale, 52. Restrictions on colonial commerce, 53.) Capture of whalemen by 

 French and Spanish privateers in 1771, 53. Crews of two Nantucket whaling- 

 sloops capture a piratical ship, 54. American navigators and the Gulf Stream ; 

 English self-sufficiency, 55. The course of the Gulf Stream first charted by a Nan- 

 tucket captain, 55. Whalemen captured by Spauish cruisers in 1772, 56. (Xote. — 

 The Rhode Island fleet : a fish story, 56.) Whaling on the coast of Africa, 56. 

 Massacre of part of the crew of a Boston brig, 56. Captures by the French, 56. 

 (Xote. — Dates of the fishery in different localities, 56.) The Portuguese mode of 

 obtaining experience in 1774, 57. (Xotes. — Infrequency of going into a port of 

 some whaling-ships ; description of a "snow," 57.) Statistics of the fishery in 1774, 

 57. (Xote. — Detailed statement of the business from 1771 to 1775, 57.) The Revo- 

 lution, 58. Massachusetts the focus of insurrection, 58. The fisheries first to feel 

 the shock of war, 58. (Xote. — Importance of colonial trade to England, 58.) Efforts 

 of the English government to reduce New England by restrictions upon her fish- 

 eries, 59. Strenuous fight of the minority in Parliament, 59. Petitions against the 

 restraining act, 59. (Xote. — Evidence introduced by the opponents of the act, 59.) 

 Arguments against the passage of the act, 60. Burke's eloquence, 60. (Xote. — 

 The Falkland Islands, 61.) Relief for Nantucket, 62. Massachusetts also passes a 

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