Release Date: December 25, 2008 [EBook #2701] Last Updated: December 3,
2017
  —_A Voyage to Greenland, A.D._ 1671. _Harris Coll_.
  “Several whales have come in upon this coast (Fife) Anno 1652, one
  1668.
  1729.
  Letters on Banks’s and Solander’s Voyage to Iceland in_ 1772.
  —_Thomas Jefferson’s Whale Memorial to the French minister in_ 1778.
  “In the year 1690 some persons were on a high hill observing the
  Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York_, 1821.
  Whale_, 1839.
  1840.
  of a Whaling Cruize_.  1846.
  survivors. A.D._ 1828.
  1828.
1_st_, 1836. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS SISTER.
Off-shore Ground in the PACIFIC, _December_ 31_st_, 1839. THIS MARBLE
3_d_, 1833. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW.
Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties
Cetology,” says Captain Scoresby, A.D. 1820.
(sperm whale), says Surgeon Beale, A.D. 1839.
Nature, A.D. 1776, Linnæus declares, “I hereby separate the whales from
the fish.” But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850,
  Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it
First: In the year 1820 the ship Essex, Captain Pollard, of Nantucket,
Secondly: The ship Union, also of Nantucket, was in the year 1807
plates of whales extracted from a Dutch book of voyages, A.D. 1671,
one killed on the coast of Mexico, August, 1793, and hoisted on deck.”
the abridged London edition of 1807, there are plates of an alleged
Then, again, in 1825, Bernard Germain, Count de Lacépède, a great
Baron. In 1836, he published a Natural History of Whales, in which he
something less than 2000 square feet—the pressure of the water is
1851), it should still remain a problem, whether these spoutings are,
A.D. 1695. But though no other nation has ever had any written whaling
What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish, in which Columbus struck the
article of commerce, that in 1791 a certain Nantucket-born Captain
1775, this great whaling house was in existence, my numerous
fish-documents do not make plain; but in that year (1775) it fitted out
though for some score of years previous (ever since 1726) our valiant
In 1778, a fine ship, the Amelia, fitted out for the express purpose,
is not all. In 1819, the same house fitted out a discovery whale ship
year 1779 was disinterred in the Rue Dauphine in Paris, a short street
complete vast skeleton of an extinct monster, found in the year 1842,
twenty-eight feet. And this work was published so late as A.D. 1825.
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