or Bastas, a cloth made of coarse white cotton-thread, which comes from the East Indies. That of Surat is the best.

BAFFIN'S Bay, a gulph of North America, running north-east from Cape Farewell in West Greenland, from 60° N. lat. to 80°.

BAG; in commerce, a term signifying a certain quantity of some particular commodity; as a bag of almonds, for instance, is about three hundred weight; of anifeeds, from three to four hundred, &c.

Bags are used in most countries to put several sorts of coin in, either of gold, silver, brats, or copper. Bankers, and others, who deal much in current cash, label their bags of money, by tying a ticket or note at the mouth of the bag, signifying the coin therein contained, the sum total, its weight, and of whom it was received. Tare is allowed for the bag. See Tare and Tret.

Bag, among farriers, is when, in order to retrieve a horse's lost appetite, they put in an ounce of afa-fetida, and as much powder of savin, into a bag, to be tied to the bit, keeping him bridled for two hours, several times a-day; as soon as the bag is taken off, he will fall to eating. The same bag will serve a long time.