Report of the Commissioner1878 |
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Common terms and phrases
Adams American ports-Continued arrival Bark barrels Bbls Bedford Benjamin boat Bought from Boston Brazil Brig Built Cape Captain carp Charles Coffin Commission Conn Cook County Creek crew Dartmouth December Edgartown Edward eggs Fairhaven fish fishery Folger Gardner George Gibbs Gifford Hathaway Henry Howland Indian Ocean Island James John Joseph July 17 July 20 June 12 June 20 Lake Last reported London lost Luce Managing owner Mass Mass.-Continued Mattapoisett N. W. Coast Name of vessel Nantucket North Pacific owner or agent Pacific Ocean Parker Perry ponds pounds bone Provincetown Result of voyage returns of whaling-vessels River Sag Harbor sailing from American salmon Samuel Schooner Sent home Sept Ship sloop Smith sold South Atlantic South Atlantic July sperm Sperm-oil Starbuck Swain Taber Table showing returns Thomas Tonnage Westport whale Whale-oil Whalebone whalemen whaling-vessels Name withdrawn York
Popular passages
Page 55 - For some time past, the old world has been fed from the new. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.
Page 108 - But where, thought I, is the crew? Their struggle has long been over ; they have gone down amidst the roar of the tempest ; their bones lie whitening among the caverns of the deep. Silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end.
Page 50 - And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen, dated in London the day of September, 7679 George Churchey.
Page 116 - How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep! How has expectation darkened into anxiety, anxiety into dread, and dread into despair! Alas! not one memento shall ever return for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known, is that she sailed from her port,
Page 55 - I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Page 55 - ... when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, — I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Page 55 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 55 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 53 - Colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Providence Plantation, in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British islands in the West Indies ; and to prohibit such Provinces and Colonies from carrying on any fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland or other places therein to be mentioned, under certain conditions, and for a time to be limited.