Note 226 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Cf. Edw. Eggleston on “Commerce in the Colonies” in The Century, xxviii. 236; also Macy’s Nantucket. The practice of taking whales in boats from the shore is said to have been introduced into Nantucket by Ichabod Paddock from Cape Cod. “Nantucket men are the only New England whalers at present,” says Douglass (Summary, etc., 1747, vol. i. p. 59; also p. 296).