PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH:

AND HURST, ROBINSON AND CO. CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.

1820.

SECT. 3. Observations on the Fishery of different

latitudes and seasons, and under different

circumstances of ice, wind and weather,

Page

207

4. Description of the Boats and principal In-

struments used in the capture of the Whale, 221

5. Preparations for the Fishery,

6. Proceedings on Fishing Stations,

7. Proceedings in capturing the Whale,

8. Alterations produced in the manner of con-

ducting the Fishery, by peculiar circum-

230

236

240

c. Fishing in crowded Ice, or in open Packs, 266

CHAP. V.-Account of the Davis' Strait

Whale-Fishery, and a comparison with that

of Greenland, with Statements of Expen-

ces and Profits of a Fishing Ship,

SECT. 1. Some account of the Whale-fishery, as at

present conducted in Davis' Strait, and

Page

382

on the Coast of Labrador,

ib.

2. Comparative View of the Fisheries of Green-

land and Davis' Strait,

390

3. Statements of Expences and Profits on some

Whale-fishing Voyages,

CHAP. VI.—Method of Extracting Oil and

Preparing Whalebone, and Remarks on the

uses to which the several products of the

Whale-Fishery are applied,

SECT. 1. Description of the Premises and Apparatus

used in extracting Oil out of Blubber,

393

397

397

2. Process of Boiling Blubber or Extracting

Oil,

4.00

3. Description of Whale-Oil, and Remarks on

the cause of its offensive smell,

4. Description of Whalebone, and of the Me-

thod of Preparing it,

408

415

5. Remarks on the Uses to which the Oil,

Fenks, Tails, Jawbones, and other pro-

duce of Whales are applicable,

CHAP. VII.-Narrative of Proceedings on

board of the Ship Esk, during a Whale-

Fishing Voyage to the coast of Spitzbergen,

in the year 1816,

420

438

Arsene of a Tin, respecting the right of the
St↑ Epeminent, to a Whale struck by one
of the Crew of the Neptune; Galer. Wil-
Lion,

11-5 on 1s used in the Whale-fishery,

Its for determining

my Belt and Measure,

512

518

521

522

524

525

ACCOUNT

OF THE

NORTHERN WHALE-FISHERIES,

&c.

CHAPTER 1.

CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN WHALE-FISHERIES.

In the early ages of the world, when beasts of prey began to multiply and annoy the vocations of man, the personal danger to which he must have been occasionally exposed, would oblige him to contrive some means of defence. For this end he would naturally be induced, both to prepare weapons, and also to preconceive plans for resisting the disturbers of his peace.

His subsequent rencounters with

beasts of prey would therefore be more frequently successful; not only in effectually repelling them when they should attack him, but also in some instances in accomplishing their destruction. By ex

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