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this measure, was to cut off Nantucket
from considerable portion of lis foreign
market; vet the American whale trade
was not sensbly diminished, as its con-
sumption was enlarged in varons parts of
The world, and even the expectation to
t.ncland continued tc be carried on. AS
new coasts were explored. the field of the
whale fishery became enlarged, and the
American whale fishermen adven,ured
widely into the ocean for their favorl'c
game. The places at which the whale
fishery commenced, and the periods when
it was begun, prior to our revolution. we
have in the subioincd table, which is be
licvcd 10 be accuratc


AT Davis Straits. in the year l746.


The Island of Disco. in the mouth of
Dat'in's Bay, in the year 1851.


Gulf of St. Lawrence. in the year 1861.


Coast of Guinea, in the year 1863.


Western Islands, in the year l765.


Eastward of the Banks of Newfound-
land, in the year 1865.


Coast of Brazil, in the year TIA.


Besides these places, whaling voy-
ages were carried on to considera-
bic extent, although for shorter peri
cd, upon the Grand Banks, Cape Vcrd
Islands, numerous points of the West In
dies, the Bay of Mexico, the Carrihcan
Sea, the coast of the Spanish Main, and
various other parts of the sea. The a.
mount OF enterprise invested in the traffic
at different periods, and the profits of the
voyages at this earl Y stage of the fishery,
may perhaps be interesting at the present
time, exhibiting, as they do, the progress
Of the trade in this country. We there
fore suhion table, showing the number
Of vessels in this country employed in the
whale fishery, and the amount of oil pro-
dnccd commencing in 1862, and running
down a period OF ten years.


The number Of American ships, and oil


produced, for ten years.