Note 1 — DUMARESQ VS. THE AMSTERDAM POST.
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"Skibbereen is a small market town, where the Collector, Surveyor, and other Officers of the port of Baltimore reside", (i.e., since the destruction of Baltimore by the Barbary corsairs in 1631). Ch. Smith, Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork (Dublin, 1750), I. 280. Hence Mackay would go there to make this declaration of damage by storm, called in maritime law a protest.