July 2 - 1874 Nantucket was while in the water & that they were led about quite easily by a rope passed around the body behind the fins but then would stick with the knife their death struggles are terrible & heard of the men had narrow escapes at such times. The largest fish was about twenty feet long, it's yield of oil was estimated at about 2 barrels; this is worth at present $20.00 per bh. & the total value of fish as they lay on the beach was said to be about $2,000.00. Before we left some old whalers arrived & immediately set to work to strip off the blubber; cutting this into strips of about 4 inches in width it was torn off forcibly the whole length of the animal: the thickest blubber that I saw, perhaps exceeded by a trifle, 4 inches. The mammas of the cows were situated in two lumps near the anus & were quite visible. The penis of the S had an external expansion of about 3 inches, its diameter of perhaps 1 1/2 or 2 inches. The "Alert inhabitant" affirms that no such catch as this ever fell to the luck of Nantucket before though one 200 was record at Portsmouth 2 years ago. On