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MARINE MAM3IALS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN COAST. 



bered two hundred and thirty -seven, which were principally whalers of the larger 

 class. It now has (1873) one hundred and twenty-nine. San Francisco, in ]853, 

 had ten vessels in the business, but the present year there is but one legitimate 

 whaling -craft sailing from that port. It may be regarded as a singular coinci- 

 dence, that Boston and New York, which repeatedly, in former years, attempted, 

 but failed, to successfully establish the whaling business at either port, have 

 now (February 4th, 1873) six small vessels in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific 

 whale-fishery. Marion has three small schooners, Beverly one brig, Dartmouth 

 two ships, San Francisco one bark, which make up the whole American whaling- 

 fleet of the pi'esent day, consisting of twenty -six ships, one hundred and twenty- 

 five barks, twelve brigs, and thirty- eight schooners — in all, 47,378 tons. 



The following prices have been taken from the Merchants Magazine, and the 

 Whalemen s Shipping List of November, 1840; also from J. Ross Browne's work: 



Average Pkices or Oil (pee gallon) and Bone (per pound), from 1835 to 1872, inclusive. 



Year. 



1835. 



1836, 



1807 . 



1838 . 



1839. 



1840. 



1841 



1842 



1843, 



1844 



1845, 



1846, 



1847, 



1848. 



1849, 



1850. 



1851. 



1852. 



1853. 



Year. 



1854 



1855 



1856 



1857 



1858 



1859 



1860 



1861 



1862 



1863 



1864 



1865 



1866 



1867 



1868 



1869 



1870 



1871 



1872 



Sperm Oil. 



$1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



48f 



77 



62 



281 



21 



36J 



41^ 



311 



421 



61 



78 



25 



55 



331 



92 



78 



35-V 



35 



45:1- 



$0 58f 

 71 

 791 

 73J 

 54 

 481 

 491 

 441 

 591 

 95i 

 1 28 

 1 45 

 1 21 

 73i 

 82 

 1 01| 

 67i 

 60 

 651 



$0 39^ 

 45i 

 58 

 96f 

 921 

 85 

 801 

 66 

 82 

 1 53 

 1 80 

 1 71 

 1 37 

 1 171 

 1 021 

 124 

 85 

 70 



1 281 



Following, we give a tabular statement of the condition of the fishery for 

 thirty-eight years, beginning in 1835 and ending in 1872, inclusive: 



