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HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY FROM ITS EARLIEST INCEPTION TO THE YEAR 1876 - ALEXANDER STARBUCK. The period from 1750 to 1784 was the most eventful era to the whale-fishery that it has ever passed through.

HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY FROM ITS EARLIEST INCEPTION TO THE YEAR 1876 - ALEXANDER STARBUCK

For a large proportion of the time the business was carried on under imminent risk of capture, first by the Spanish and French and after by the English. The colonial Davis Strait fishery seems to have been quite abandoned, and the vessels cruised mostly to the eastward of the Grand Banks, along the edge of the Gulf Stream and in the vicinity of the Bahamas. In 1748 the English Parliament had passed a second act to encourage this fishery.

By it the premium on inspection of masts, yards, and bowsprits, tar, pitch, and turpentine, and on British-made sail-cloth were to continue, and the duties on foreign-made sail-cloth were remitted to vessels engaged in this pursuit. A bounty was also granted on all ships engaged in whaling during the then existing war; harpooners and others employed in the Greenland fishery were exempted from impressment. Unusual and Marvelous Maps. "QUANTUM SHOT" #585Link - article by Simon Rose and Avi Abrams Hideous monsters devouring ships?

Unusual and Marvelous Maps

Cryptic symbols, correctly showing storm fronts & dangerous currents We’ve always been fond of maps, from those antique ones showing sea serpents and hideous monsters devouring ships in the vast expanses of the ocean, to those showing what the world looked like in the distant, and not so distant, past.

US History

Pacific NW History. 1039-1044.