304 



SCOMBEROIDES 



employment to thousands, who could not contribute 

 to the general prosperity of the state in any oth- 

 er way. # 



The thousands of barrels annually exported to 

 the West Indies, give peculiar activity to our 

 commerce. 



The Surmullet, — Mullus Surmuletus, a 

 variety of the mackerel, was held in the high- 

 est possible estimation by the Romans, those 

 princes of good living. Pliny says that a Ro- 

 man Consul paid for only one of them, a sum 

 equal to $216,68, and Suetonius furthermore re- 



* The following is the number of 

 ed in this state during the last 

 halves are reduced to whole barrel: 



1804 

 1805 

 1806 

 1807 

 1808 

 1S09 

 1810 

 1811 

 1812 

 1813 

 1814 



8,079£ 

 8,936£ 

 8,473 

 10,904£ 

 7,738£ 

 8,86oh 

 13,058£ 

 19,632 

 5.018£ 

 3,832i 

 1,349 



1815 I2ts.l6,349£ 



1816 30,021 



1817 37,982 



barrels of 



mackerel pack- 



twentysix 



years. The 



1818 



47,210 



1819 



105,433 



1820 



236,243 



1821* 



111,009^ 



1822 



160,294^ 



1823 



145,006 



1824 



191,650^ 



1825 



254,381^ 



1826 



158,7404 



1827 



190,310£ 



1828 



237,324£ 



1829 



225,882 



1830 



308,462 



* The first year after the division of the States from Maine. 



