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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.