25th I took a walk through the city during
the day, & for beauty & elegance in its location
it can hardly be surpassed by any city it may
be the most noted city for fiting out whale men
in the world, almost the whole city has been
built up by whalemen or through that trade. the
docks are lined with casks of whale & sperm
oil. We went on board of a number of whale
ships that were fitting out which would carry
from 1500 to 3000 barrels of oil. We have
freequent opportunities of sending letters & paper
to Elders Greward, Pratt & Rogers at Tahita
South Pacific. A sister gave me six pair of
fine specimens of shells that whalemen brought
from that country I also recieved a pair of Ivory
swiss for winding silk, thread, &c of peculiar workmanship
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