a considerable town of Romania, in Turkey in Europe. It is pretty well built, and hath clean and broad streets; has a great trade; and is situated on the river Meritz, in E. Long. 24. 30. N. Lat. 41. 49.

BASARUCO in Commerce, a small base coin in the East Indies, being made only of very bad tin. There are, however, two sorts of this coin, a good and a bad; the bad is one-sixth in value lower than the good.