PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH: AND HURST, ROBINSON AND CO. CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. 1820. Page 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, 3. Statements of Expences and Profits on some CHAP. VI.—Method of Extracting Oil and Preparing Whalebone, and Remarks on the uses to which the several products of the 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- 438 Arsene of a Tin, respecting the right of the 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 VOL. II. |