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A few years previous to the revolution.
the average price in market tor spermace"
oil was about E1O. and for head matter
ESQ. Common whale oil was seventy
dollars per ton, and the bone was about
half dollar per pound. AS whale pro.
ducinu about one hundred barrels OF oil
would yield two thousand pounds OF bone,
and Il whale producing fifty or sixty bar
rcls of oil would ordinarily yield about
ten pounds Of bone to the barrel, it is
obvious that he capture of a single whale
must have been an important object, event
so far as mere profit was concerned.


80 he continued