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G.— MISCELLANEOUS— Continued. 



ford, 146. The Maria, of Nantucket, 146. The Silas Richards, of Sag Harbor; 

 the Bowditch, of Providence; the Cordelia, of Provincetown, 146. The Lowell 

 and General Williams, of New London, 147. The South America, of Providence; 

 the Eussell, of New Bedford ; the Plymouth, of Sag Harbor, 147. The Coral, of 

 New Bedford, 147. The Envoy, of New Bedford, 147. The Arctic fleet, 148. The 

 Favorite, of Fairhaven ; Montreal and Sheffield, of New Bedford, 148. The 

 Pioneer, of New London, 148. Success not confined to large vessels, 148. The 

 Admiral Blake, James, and Altamaha, of Sippican, 148. The Watchman, of Nan- 

 tucket, 148. (Notes. — Arctic whalebone; ambergris, 148.) Bad voyages, 148. 

 The Clifford Wayne, of Fairhaven, 149. The Emeline,of New Bedford, 149. The 

 Benjamin Rush, of Warren, 149. $1,000,000 loss in 1858, 149. $36,000 loss to 

 Provincetown in 1870, 149. Sperm candles ; Macy's account of the manufacture, 

 149. (Notes. — Macy manifestly in error in date ; petition of Benjamin Crabb, 149.) 

 Exports of sperm candles from 1/91 to 1815, 153. (Notes. — Duck factories at 

 Salem, Boston, Nantucket, and Newport; bounty for the manufacture of duck by 

 the general court of Massachusetts, in 1727; candle factories in Hudson, in 1797, 

 153.) Harpoons lost and found, 154. Whistling whale, 154. Large whales, 155. 

 (Notes. — Recovery of an iron; use of whalebone unknown in 1578; list of its 

 present uses, 155.) Whalebone, 155. Description of the right whale, 156. Prices 

 of whalebone, 156. (Note. — Use of the bone in the whale's economy ; high price 

 of cut-bone, 156.) (Note. — Description of brit, 157.) Large whales, 158. (Note. — 

 Liability to exaggeration, 158.) Endurance and strength of whales, 158. Thirty- 

 one bomb-lances required to subdue one, 159. (Note. — A whale takes out nearly 

 six miles of line, 159.) " Settling " of whales, 159. Appearance and disappear- 

 ance of whales, 159. (Note. — Large captures from schools of whales, 159.) De- 

 scription of the capture of a whale, 160. (Note. — Whale-boats from rival nations 

 struggle for a whale in the South Pacific, 162 ; how the American stole a march 

 on the Englishman, in Delago Bay, 163.) 



II.— INTRODUCTORY TO RETURNS, 166. 



I.— RETURNS OF WHALING-VESSELS from 1715 to 1784, 168. 



J.— SUMMARY OF IMPORTATION OF OIL AND BONE from January 1, 1804, to 

 January 1, 1877, 660. 



K.— SYNOPSIS OF IMPORTATION BY PORTS from 1804 to 1877, with the nature and 

 number of vessels returning, and (from 1839) the class and tonnage of vessels 

 engaged, 662. 



L.— EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES, the products of the whale-fishery, from 

 1791 to July 1, 1876, 700. 



M.— TONNAGE OF VESSELS ENGAGED IN THE WHALE FISHERY, 702. 



