. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. /1 '-t !l (. 382 NORTHERN WHALE-FISHERY. it ros3 SO high as £60; hut m 1802 v/as only i£31; and in 1807 had sunk so low as £21. In 1813 it reached a higher price than ever, the finest quality being sold at £60; hut the prosperous fishery of 1814 brought it down again to £32. Mr Scoresby reckons the average of the nineteen years ending with 1818, at £34, 15s.; while an int
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. /1 '-t !l (. 382 NORTHERN WHALE-FISHERY. it ros3 SO high as £60; hut m 1802 v/as only i£31; and in 1807 had sunk so low as £21. In 1813 it reached a higher price than ever, the finest quality being sold at £60; hut the prosperous fishery of 1814 brought it down again to £32. Mr Scoresby reckons the average of the nineteen years ending with 1818, at £34, 15s.; while an intelligent correspondent at Aberdeen stated that of the twenty preceding at £28, 15s. The price in July 1830 was given in the Scotch ports at from £24 to £26 ; in Hull at £24. Since that time it has run nearly between £25 and £30; which last rate for the last two or three years has been fully supported. Whalebone bore anciently a very high price, when the rigid stays and expanded hoops of our grandmothers produced an c: tensive demand for this commodity. The Dutch have occasionally obtained £700 per ton, and were accustomed to draw £100,000 annually from Eng- land for that one article. Even in 1763 it brought £500; but it soon fell, and has never again risen to the same value. During the present century the price has varied between £60 and £300, seldom falling to the lowest rate, and rarely exceeding £150. Mr Scoresby reckons the price in the five years ending 1818 at £90; while in July 1830, it was stated from the different ports to be from £160 to £180. The average price of the twenty years to 1834 was estimated at £163. The rate in 1844 is reported to us at £300. This is for what is called the size-honey or such pieces as measure six feet or upwards in length ; those below this standard are usually sold at half-price. It may appear singular that whalebone should rise while oil has been so de- cidedly lowered ; but the one change, it is obvious, has reall
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