GILSONITE (so named after S. H. Gilson of

See also:

• SALT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch zout, Ger. Salz, Scand. salt; cognate with Gr. &Xs, Lat. sal)
• SALT, SIR TITUS, BART

Salt

See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake

See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City)  , Or UINTAHITE, Or UINTAITE, a description of asphalt occurring in masses several inches in diameter 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 fuses perfectly . It has a specific gravity of 1•o65 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, but now confined to the Amur delta and the north of Sakhalin . They have been affiliated by some authorities to the Ainu of Sakhalin and Yezo; but they are more probably a mongrel people, and Dr A . Anuchin states that there are two types, a Mongoloid with sparse beard, high cheek-bones and flat face, and a Caucasic with bushy beard and more regular features . The Chinese call 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, 1891) .