Note 21 — MYSTACOCETI (WHALEBONE WHALES.)

Space will not permit of more than a passing reference here, but much information as to the rise and progress of the whale-fishery will be found in McCulloch’s ‘Dictionary of Commerce,’ article “Whale-fishery;” Scammon’s ‘Marine Mammals of the North-western coast of North America;’ Starbuck’s ‘History of the American Whale Fishery;’ Mr. C. R. Markham’s ‘The Threshold of the Unknown Region;’ Capt. A. H. Markham’s book above referred to; and above all in Scoresby’s excellent works, which have been extensively laid under contribution by nearly all subsequent writers—‘An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-fishery’ (2 vols., 1820), and ‘A Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-fishery,’ in 1822.