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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 26 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GILSONITE (so named after S. H. Gilson of See also:Salt See also:Lake See also:City)  , Or UINTAHITE, Or UINTAITE, a description of See also:asphalt occurring in masses several inches in See also:diameter in the Uinta (or Uintah) valley, near Fort See also:Duchesne, See also:Utah . It is of See also:black See also:colour; its fracture is conchoidal, and it has a lustrous See also:surface . When warmed it becomes plastic, and on further See also:heating fuses perfectly . It has a specific gravity of 1•o65 to 1.070 . It dissolves freely in hot oil of See also:turpentine . The output amounted to 10,916 See also:short tons for the See also:year 1905, and the value was $4'31 per ton . GILYAKS, a hybrid See also:people, originally widespread throughout the See also:Lower See also:Amur" See also:district, but now confined to the Amur See also:delta and the See also:north of See also:Sakhalin . They have been affiliated by some authorities to the See also:Ainu of Sakhalin and See also:Yezo; but they are more probably a See also:mongrel people, and Dr A . Anuchin states that there are two types, a Mongoloid with sparse See also:beard, high cheek-bones and See also:flat See also:face, and a Caucasic with bushy beard and more See also:regular features . The See also:Chinese See also:call them Yupitatse, " See also:Fish-skinclad people," from their wearing a See also:peculiar See also:dress made from See also:salmon skin . See E . G .

Ravenstein, The Russians on the Amur (1861); Dr A . Anuchin, Mem . See also:

Imp . See also:Soc . Nat . Sc. xx., Supplement (See also:Moscow, 1877); H. von See also:Siebold, Uber See also:die Aino (See also:Berlin, 1881); J . See also:Deniker in Revue d'ethnographie (See also:Paris, 1884) ; L . Schrenck, Die Volker See also:des Amurlandes (St See also:Petersburg, 1891) .

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