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5068. MARKETS, Fish oil.—[further continued] .

The Arret of September
28th [1788], to comprehend us with the English,
in the exclusion of whale oil from their
ports * * * would be a sentence of banishment
to the inhabitants of Nantucket, and
there is no doubt they would have removed
to Nova Scotia or England, in preference to
any other part of the world.—
To William Carmichael. Washington ed. ii, 551.
(P. 1788)