vst'ron Hunts Merchants Magazine for Nov iS4O.
gAs THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY.
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|5Ft'ron Hunts Merchants Magazine for Nov. lSlO
|SgN THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY.


|&ls Continued from pase2.


The prospect of a war with England
tended to arouse the fears of the whale
|6shermcn, as they believed that their
ships, ranging over SO wide space, would
|be swept from the ocean. The " Massa-
ehusetts Bay Restraining Bill, ," tending
6restrict the commerce of New England,
xlid to exclude their whaling ships from
We Banks of Newfoundland, also fell up
III this class with heavy blow, but a


ecal relaxation of the law was made in
Eor OF Nantucket, on account of a peti-


IN from the island to that effect. The
III of the revolution soon broke out, and
( hough few direct captures were made,
anost OF the ships had opportunity to
~ safely into port, the consequence was


hkchech the whale fishery, aud the class
ofthe population who had procured their
GelIhood in this perlous traffic, were re-
dnccd to the greatest distress.


but great incOnvenlences resulting from
VIZ ItlCt lllut tIlC CpIiiiilCltc vi VIC AiliCIl-


can whale fishery was cut off from the


ooean, the people OF Nantucket prayed for


an exemption from the attacks of the en-


N y, and the petition drawn up by limo


~ Fol.!er, the agent for the people of


kntucket in 1880, resulted in a partial


Npsccuion of that commerce from this


Mt, but without very profitable results.
e whole traffic throughout the country
IS in fact suspended, and the sailors en-
= ycd in the whaling business were eli
r driven from the ocean, or earned new
rels in the naval service of the coun-
|XIhe clouds of the revolution were,
wever, soon cleared away, and peace
PIN shone bright in the heavens, cheer


and fructifying the commerce of the


hon. Nantucket, the princi pal mart of
trade at that time, was foulAl in an
I Poverished condition. The sNndred
fifty vessels which it owneds sAt the
nmencement OF the war, were dwindled
~n to a few old hulks, and the grass