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Nov 25, 1844

Journal Entry

November 25, 1844 ~ Monday

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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Pratt, Addison
21 Feb 1802 - 14 Oct 1872
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Rogers, Noah
1797-1846
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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 2
The I spent taking a view of the city which for beauty and elegance and location is hardly to be surpassed. It is a ^the most^ noted city for fitting out of walemen. The whole city has been built up through the wale trade. The docks were lined with casks of wale and sperm oil. We went aboard of a number of wale ships which were fitting out which would carry from fifteen hundred to three thousand barrels of oil. A sister gave me three pair of specimen of shels brought from the wale country I arrived in New York on the

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Nov 25, 1844