ND BURKE’S REFERENCE IN PARLIAMENT TO THE NANTUCKET WHALE-FISHERY.</p>
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<p class="source-rw">—a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.” —EDMUND BURKE. (SOMEWHERE.)</p>
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<p>“A tenth branch of the king’s ordinary revenue, said to be grounded on the consideration of his guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to royal fish, which are whale and sturgeon. And these, w