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Show The rollue i)f the Whaling Induntrjr. New Bedford, Mass., was at one time the greatest whaling port in the world. With the decline of the whaling indns-tJ'y, indns-tJ'y, however, mills were erected, and now tho town has become a manufacturing manufactur-ing rather than a seaport town. A dozen abandoned whalers lying at the docks tell of long past days. It is a strange fact that the timbers of a whaling vessel seldom decay. . They become so permeated perme-ated with oil that they are capable of resisting re-sisting time's ravages for a long time. But their peculiar shape renders them useless for other traffic. What whaling is now done is mostly in tho hands of the Tortugnese. |