Report of the Commissioner for 1875-1876 . ents from which distribution has not been reported. Connecticut 14, 000 Illinois 20,000 Iowa 4,000 Maryland , 14,000 Michigan 18,000 Minnesota 4,000 New 14,000 Ohio 12,000 Pennsylvania 4,000 Ehode Island 8,000 Tennessee 4,000 Vermont 14,000 Virginia 4,000 Wisconsin 24, 000 Canada 10,000 Total 168,000 VII.—Lake white-fish propagated and distributed, 1872 to1876 ......»,..- 4,105,000 *4 F 50* REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. .1 iS i a«« oooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooo ooioioooooo
Report of the Commissioner for 1875-1876 . ents from which distribution has not been reported. Connecticut 14, 000 Illinois 20,000 Iowa 4,000 Maryland , 14,000 Michigan 18,000 Minnesota 4,000 New 14,000 Ohio 12,000 Pennsylvania 4,000 Ehode Island 8,000 Tennessee 4,000 Vermont 14,000 Virginia 4,000 Wisconsin 24, 000 Canada 10,000 Total 168,000 VII.—Lake white-fish propagated and distributed, 1872 to1876 ......»,..- 4,105,000 *4 F 50* REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. .1 iS i a«« oooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooo ooioiooooooir:oooooooooioooooooooo eTooooinoo iowifcfddddo«dddddddodt-;dirrodrtdodo oooomeo^o «WHH««W»OHej(N(»w(NrtHHH ««H^!N«t00 <?J <?J C< O 1-H Irt ^H^rt ^ © © bO I -a<weg a ° i o as o O oooooo«©ooooooooooo,ooo jj bJD MO o pa fcO 2 i o aa 3 : 15 •a ® . « a aS a § ° a 2 : o afl o p oo oooooooooooooooooo• •;; a ;;•••; ^ ;;;;;;;; ; ? a. APPENDIX A. SEA FISHERIES ( THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERIES.) 51 I.—HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY FROM ITSEARLIEST INCEPTION TO THE YEAR 1876.* By Alexander Starbuck. A.—INTRODUCTION. Few interests have exerted a more marked influence upon the historyof the United States than that of the fisheries. Aside from the valuethey have had in a commercial point of view, they have always beenfound to be the nurseries of a hardy, daring, and indefatigable race of sea-men, such as scarcely any other pursuit could have trained. The pio-neers of the sea, whalemen were the advance guard, the forlorn hope ofcivilization. Exploring expeditions followed after to glean where theyhad reaped. In the frozen seas of the north and the south, their keelsplowed to the extreme limit of navigation, and between the tropics *More than fifty years ago (in 1825) Samuel H. Jenks, esq., then editor of the Nan-tucket Inquirer, announced his intention to write the history of whaling, and adver-tised for materi
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