126 NEW-YORK FAUNA. 
whale fishery, in the year ending September, 1839, was 557, making an aggregate of 169,938 
tons, which would give employment to 9,987 men, and to as many more on shore, in the 
various operations of coopering, refining, etc. etc. 
PLACES 
WHERE OWNED, 
Indian ocean. 
South Atlantic. 
Amount of tonnage. 
New-Bedford, ........ Sell 
Fairhaven, 
MartMouth: sic sisigics« v cis, 6 
Westport, 
Wareham, .-. 
Rochester, .. 
Nantucket, 
Edgartown, ...eeesesees 
Holmes Hole, ........-. 
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Newburyport, . 
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Bristol, 
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Providence, 
New-London, . 
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Mystic, ........sccrcecs 
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710 
2,902 
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629 
1,578 
366 
169,983 
Poughkeepsie 
Cold Spring, .......- eee 
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Newark, 
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The amount of whale and sperm oil and whalebone introduced into the United States, and 
the total value of the same at estimated average prices from actual sales during the four years 
preceding 1839, is as follows : 
