Vol. 2.-NO. 2.
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HlN'tc, ana expressing Willingness 10 re-
main neutral in The bclIigerent operations
which succcodcd But all this was of 20
avail, and tie navioators of that island,
diverted from their ancient business, were
left to starve or to gain scanty subsist-
ence by fishing around the coast, or bv
cultivating its barren soil.


At the close of the war of 1919, the
country. it is well known was involved i'm
one common wreck but the elastic ener-
gcs of the nation revived, and the whale
fishery was commenced upon new foun-
dation, and has been advancing with a
gradual and solid growth to the present
time. During the year 1919. it was ex-
tended to many points along the coast of
New England: and whale ships were fit
ted ont from New York, Long Island,
New London, New Bedford, Cape Cod,
and Boston, which have been increasing
to the present day, constituting a source
Of great wealth to ihc beautiful settlements
that arc scattered along our northern mar
Itlmc shores, rs monuments of the liberal
ity and enterprise of that high-minded
class Of men, our American whaling mer-
chants. The growing population of the
country, and the increased consumption
of the articles produced by the hale fish
cry from the Introduction of machinery,
and the multiplied branches of trade re-
curing them, together with the more eff
cient organization of this enterprise, and
the security to its prosecution furnished
by the strength of our government, will
render it in coming time, as it now is, a
lucrative and permanent field of COM
merce.


In order to show the progress of the
whale fishery from the period which we
have mentioned, it may be proper here to
state that according to Mr. Pitkin, the
quantity of sperm oil brought into this
country in 1881, was 1O9, 200 barrels, and
of common oil, 4,34l; and of whale
bone, l.O29.69O pounds, the total value
being Bliss ,G32 dollars: that into the sim
.yle ports of New Bedford and Nantucket,


ere were brought in the year 1893. 76.-
G3l barrels OF sperm oil, ,J96 barrels of
common oil, and 729,759 pounds Of
whale5one; to which when we add tie
amount brought in'o the other ports dur
ing that year, it equals the sum of 4,O46,-
900 dollars, this enormous sum being the
product OF our domestic industry in that
department for one year. Mr. Pitkin,
who is doubtless good authority, states
that the whole numbcr of vessels engaged


in the whale fishery in 1884, was four
hundred and lhirty-lonr. the greater part
of which belonged to New Bedford. Nam
tucket and New London, whose aygre-
gate value was ten millions one hundred
and thirty thousand dollars, and employ
ing not less ,han ten thousand nine hun
drcd men. From the same source. we


learn that at this time, about one half of
the common whale oil found a market in
Europe, one quarter in the West Indies,
and the other quarter was consumed in
the United States. The spermaceti oil
imported is consumed mainly in the
United States, from quarter to third
being used in the cotton and woollen man
uiactorIcs, and considerable portion in
the engines of our steamboats,, and bv 9th
er kinds OF machinery, This consulnp-
ton, however, would be much greater,