Nantucket Island, British whaling at, [58].

Nascaupees, and the fur trade, [33].

Naval architecture, improvement of, [66].

Naval history, ignorance concerning, [13-14].

Navigation laws, the, [68-9]; repealed, [74].

New Brunswick, shipbuilding in, [75-6].

Newfoundland, [2]; in relation to Canada, [5]; and knowledge of the sea, [12]; boats of various countries at, [51]; British supremacy at, [63], [64]; fisheries of, [155], [157-8].

New France, nautical history of, [54] note; nautical advantages of, [58].

New Zealand, and the British Navy, [183], [185].

Norsemen. See Norwegians.