MR. T. SOUTHWELL OX THE ARCTIC WHALE-FISHERY. 20J 
up and disposal by “ some that had bine in the Greenland 
fishing for Whales,” doubtless men belonging to Lynn, from 
which it would appear that the Greenland fishery was even 
at that time no new industry from that port. In Richards’ 
‘ History of Lynn,’ published in 1812 (vol. ii. p. 1163), the fol- 
lowing passage occurs : “ The trade to Greenland and Davis 
Strait, or what is called the Whale-fishery, is another branch 
in which Lynn has been concerned for many years : and as 
it is still persevered in, it may be presumed to have proved 
no ungainful concern. The ships fitted out for this trade 
generally sail in March and return about July. Three or 
four ships have been usually employed in this trade, and 
sometimes more, but we understand that there are only two 
fitted out this year ” (1812 ?). 
In Stacy’s ‘ Norfolk Tour ’ (1829, vol. i. p. 443) the above 
is quoted with the following addition: ‘‘but the Greenland 
Trade has, within the last two or three years, been entirely 
discontinued in consequence of the great decrease in the 
demand for oil.” There can be no doubt a brisk Whaling trade 
was carried on by the merchant aristocrats of Lynn, the 
Bagges, Hogges, Everards, and others throughout the 18th 
and early part of the 19th centuries. Lynn was then the 
port of entry for large quantities of coals, timber, wine and 
cork, and for the export of wheat and wool, which by a 
very extensive inland system of water communication were 
dispersed over, or collected from, several counties, but the 
trade was gradually diverted into other channels, and the 
inland water traffic superseded by railways ; the great mer- 
chants whose stately houses still abound in the town, though 
degraded to baser purposes, gradually withdrew from vulgar 
competition. 
In the ‘ New Annual Register ’ for 17S8, p. 32 (as quoted 
in Richards’ Lynn) is recorded an adventure which occurred 
to Capt. Cook, of the “ Archangel,” which arrived at Lynn 
from Greenland with two fish in August of that year — the 
captain was attacked by a bear and the surgeon, who was 
fifty yards away, by a lucky shot killed the bear instantly, 
thus saving the captain from an untimely death. The 
