GILSONITE (so named after S. H. Gilson of Salt Lake City)

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GILSONITE (so named after S. H. Gilson of Salt Lake City) ,
Or UINTAHITE, Or UINTAITE, a description of asphalt occurring in masses several inches in

diameter

DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

in the Uinta (or Uintah) valley, near Fort Duchesne, Utah. It is of black colour; its fracture is conchoidal, and it has a lustrous surface. When warmed it becomes plastic, and on further

heating

HEATING

fuses perfectly. It has a specific gravity of 1o65 to 1.070. It dissolves freely in hot oil of turpentine. The output amounted to 10,916 short
tons for the year 1905, and the value was $4'31 per ton. GILYAKS, a hybrid people, originally widespread throughout
the Lower Amur"

district

DISTRICT

, but now confined to the Amur

delta

DELTA (from the shape of the Gr. letter A, delta, originally used of the mouth of the Nile)

and the north of Sakhalin. They have been affiliated by some authorities to the Ainu of Sakhalin and

Yezo

YEZO

; but they are more probably a mongrel people, and Dr A. Anuchin states that there are two types, a Mongoloid with sparse

beard

BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge,
beak
- BEAK (early forms beke and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the English)
of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)

, high cheek-bones and flat face, and a Caucasic with bushy

beard

BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge,
beak
- BEAK (early forms beke and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the English)
of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)

and more

regular

REGULAR

features. The Chinese

call

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

them Yupitatse, " Fish-skinclad people," from their wearing a peculiar dress made from
salmon skin.
See E. G. Ravenstein, The Russians on the Amur (1861); Dr A. Anuchin, Mem. Imp. Soc. Nat. Sc. xx., Supplement (Moscow, 1877); H. von Siebold, Uber die Aino (Berlin, 1881); J. Deniker in Revue d'ethnographie (Paris, 1884) ; L. Schrenck, Die Volker des Amurlandes (St

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

, 1891).

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