THE
NORTHERN
WHALE-FISHERY.
THE
NORTHERN
WHALE-FISHERY.
BY
CAPTAIN SCORESBY, F.R.S.E.
LONDON:
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY:
Instituted 1799.
PREFACE.
The following pages are an abridgment, with some modifications and additions, of the second volume of captain (now the rev. Dr.) Scoresby’s work on the Arctic Regions and Whale-fishery, Edinburgh, 1820; the substance of the former volume having already appeared in this Monthly Series. The second chapter of the work, on the comparative view of the whale-fisheries of different European nations, has been entirely omitted, as less interesting, it is supposed, to the general reader, than the other chapters.