Note 2 — DUMARESQ VS. THE AMSTERDAM POST.
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"For packing, salting, and barreling beef, this city gives place to no other in Europe." Exports in 1743, 86951 barrels of beef, and similar amounts of butter, hides, and tallow. It was a place of 70,000 inhabitants, and the customs revenues were £50,000. Smith, Cork, I. 412, 410, 407.