MR. T. SOUTHWELL OX THE ARCTIC WHALE-FISHERY. 20CJ 
160 tons of oil and estimated to be worth /6ooo exclusive of 
whalebone, the whalebone alone which should weigh eight tons 
at the present value (£2250 per ton), would be worth £18,000. 
Capt. Manby of Yarmouth, who went to Greenland in the 
ship Baffin of Liverpool, Capt. Scoresby in 1S21 writes of 
Capt. Sanderson of the Enterprise as “ a gentleman of great 
ability and possessed of twenty years’ experience in whaling 
matters,” the Baffin spoke the Enterprise on June 7th, in the 
Greenland sea. 
The last date of a whaling voyage from Lynn given by 
McCullock is the year 1821, but I am inclined to think that 
year was not quite the finish of the fishery from that port. 
Amongst the privileges granted by the government in the 
year 1749 with a view to the encouragement of the Whale- 
fishery in addition to a bounty of 30s. per ton, the crews of 
the vessels were exempted from impressment, and Mr. W. O. 
Smith of Hunstanton, tells me that his father who was boat- 
steerer in a whaler from Lynn held such a certificate. 
Mr. W. H. Booth, of Hand ford Lodge, Ipswich, was good 
enough to send me the photograph (see illustration facing 
p. 208) of a Leeds mug in his possession* on which is a picture 
of the whaler Balcena of Lynn with her boats out attacking 
a whale and bearing the following inscription : — 
“A Ship from Lynn did Sail 
And a Ship of noble fame 
Captain Baxter is Commander 
The Beleana is her name.” 
I have a distinct recollection of seeing, when a boy, at Lynn, 
an old vessel lying at the Whaling wharf in the Friar’s fleet, 
the entrance to the river Xar ; there were two erections, one 
on each side of the river for the purpose of boiling down the 
whale blubber, know as “ Blubber Houses.” That on the 
west side of the river, on Pindar’s bank, for a photograph of 
which forming the illustration facing p. 208 I am indebted 
to Mr. Alfred Smith of Lynn, is still standing, and there are 
dilapidated remains of the wharf at which the vessels dis- 
charged their cargoes, but the building on the Town side of 
* Now in the Norwich Castle Museum. 
