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Bourse

an exchange where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for the transaction of financial business. It is used especially of the Stock Exchange of Paris. In In the United States the great exchange in Philadelphia is styled the Bourse.

BOUSSA (bös'a), or BUSSANG, a city of Africa, in the Sudan, on the Niger, near where are rapids; about lat. 10° 40' N. It was here that Mungo Park met his death in 1805. Pop. est. between 15,000 and 20,000.

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