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ASPHALT, or ASPHALTUM. The solid or semi-solid kinds of bitumen (q.v.) were termed &ff<t>a\TO$ by the Greeks; and by some ancient classical writers the name of pissasphaltum (iri<r<ra, pitch) was also sometimes employed. The asphalt of the Dead Sea (known as L ...

ANHALT, a duchy of Germany, and a constituent state of the German empire, formed, in 1863, by the amalgamation of the two duchies Anhalt-Dessau-Cothen and Anhalt-Bernburg, and comprising all the various Anhalt territories which were sundered apart in 1603. The

... t Ociras (on the Lucalla affluent of the Kwanza) and in Bailundo; petroleum and asphalt in Dande and Quinzao; gold in Lombije and Cassinga; and mineral salt in Quissama. The native blacksmiths are held in great repute. Communications. — There is a regular stea ...

... ut has other disadvantages; common iron pipes, coated internally with cement or asphalt or glazed internally, with all unions and joints cemented, have been used with more or less success. Probably best of all is common lead piping, the joints being served wit ...

... ing. The French lost 44,000 out of 00,000 successively engaged, and amongst the ASPHALT— ASPHODEL killed were Lannes and St Hilaire. The Austrians, 75,000 strong, lost 23,360. Even this, the first great defeat of Napoleon, did not shake his resolution. The bea ...

... nickel, manganese, bismuth, chromium, uranium, tellurium, sulphur, graphite and asphalt. There are also marble, roofing-slate, gypsum, porcelain-earth, potter's clay, and precious stones. It is therefore natural that mining operations should have been carried ...

... e boric acid and statuary marble of Tuscany, the statuary marble of Greece, the asphalt of Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Austria-Hungary, the slates of Wales, Scotland and France, the kaolin of Germany, England and France, and the abundand glass sands of Bel ...

... of gas for illuminating purposes. These tars are intimately related to bitumen, asphalt, mineral pitch and petroleum. Wood Tar. — Wood tar, known also as Stockholm and as Archangel tar, is principally prepared in the great pine forests of central and northern ...

... and Tennessee) produces oil rich in paraffin, practically free from sulphur and asphalt, and yielding the largest percentage of gasoline and illuminating oils. This is the highest grade crude oil produced in the world. The California field produces oil charact ...

... oleum if transportation facilities are improved; and there are rich supplies of asphalt — 19,033 tons (valued at $100,324) was the output for 1908. Salt is obtained by solar evaporation chiefly of the waters of Great Salt Lake and other brine found in that vic ...