Whale Fisheries.
Reading edition
Our whale fisheries are, perhaps, more flourishing now than at any former period. I have formed an estimate of the probable amount thus employed from Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and this port, which would be at risk in case of a war with Spain, which may awaken the attention of those whom it may concern. From New Bedford, there are round Cape Horn or on their passage, 18 ships and 1 brig, whose tonnage is 5347 tons; and they with their outfits cost
$565,000
Their return cargoes would probably amount in value to800,000
From the Vineyard there are two ships which cost50,000
Their return cargoes would probably amount to93,000
From Nantucket fifty ships, which probably cost1,350,000
Their return cargoes would probably amount to2,342,000
From New Bedford, on this side Cape Horn, there are eleven ships and eight brigs, which probably cost277,000
Their return cargoes probably will amount to363,000
From Nantucket ten ships, which probably cost140,000
And their return cargoes will probably amount to227,000
Amounting in all to$6,000,000
New Bedford Paper.]