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q )nc trial more must yet be past


@1Dnc pang the kccncst, and the last


And when, with brow convulsed and pale,


Nh feeble, quvering hcart-srings fail,


|1SyR cdecmer, grant my soul to see,


&sIhlt ''as the day, her strength shall be-" IT, HIS
IRON Hunts Merchants Magazine for Nov $40.
|N TIE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY.


The origin of the whale fishery we may
1flly trace to n foreign country. The
(3twcgans, it seems, were accustomed
|Han early period to take the whale in a


hal manner, but without any system !;
od the Blscayans appear to have first
opted it as a settled pursuit and car
IA it on with great vigOr and success,
I'm the twelfth to the fourteenth centu-
ys 1t would also seem that the voyages
|1Ahe Dutch as well as the English, to the
GRthcrn Ocean, for the purpose of dis
1&ering passage to India, disclosed the
|anls of the whale, which swarmed in
re seas. and measures were soon adopt
eboth by the Dutch and English, for the


pose of its capture. 1t is a singular
~ tthat during the middle of the seven
nth century, houses were fixed upon


northern shore of Spitzbergen, and


Rided with tanks, boilers, and all other
leeessary apparatus for the purpose of
|Qillng the blubber, and preparing the
|Re for market. The Dutch whale fish
was in its most prosperous state dur
u the year 1850, when it employed
Ibopt 26O ships and $4,000 sailors. The
lish whale fishery was carried on by
l1Sxclusive company, like that of HIol-
1 and in 1925 the South Sea Com
bs8 embarked to large extent in the
f11e. and prosecuted it with vigor for
|bQbt eight wears, when they rclinquished
heenterprise, having suffered consdera-


3oss. So also the French and other
K bns formerly embarked in the same
'nkc, with considerable success.


g far back as 1861, we have in the
'ec1hd volume of the Philosophical Trans
SctiSns, letter from Mr. Richard Nor
Pood, who resided at the Bermudas,
fhsh states that the whale fishery had
Peea carried on in the bays of those is
hn& for two or three years. A year or
Ix0s afterwards, the whale fishery was
Dnppscd by Mr. Richard Stafford, who


Drks that he had killed several black


hEs himself. 81 have been" says he,


Akthe Bahama Islands, and there have


M of this same sort of whale (the sper-


I'D dead ON the shore, with sperm
! = yer their bodies Myself and about


%ty others have agreed to try whether


Rn master and kill them, for | never


hear of any of that sort that was killed


dhy man, such is their tierceness and
hess Gone such whale" said he,


pld be worth many hundred pounds. .
} bee called New Providence, among
\ bahamas, soon afterwards became dis
I |lshed as a whale fishing station. Be-


these colonies had proposed any
" OF the sort, however, we fin(A that
ndlans upon the shores OF rth


flca were accustomed to ventureSOut


the coast in their canoes, and pierce