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[A] Master of the ship South Seaman, of New Bedford.
[B] Master of the ship William Wirt, of New Bedford.
[C] First officer of the ship General Pike, of New Bedford.
[D] First officer of the ship William Henry, of Fairhaven.
[E] See the Report of the New Bedford Port Society for 1857.
[F] Chambers.
[G] Macy's History of Nantucket.
[H] Christian Review, vol. xii.
[I] Average, eight feet; longest, fourteen feet.