Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
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
