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ALLUMETJE, m Jnclent G.^os>-aphy, the name of an 

 -ancient people of Arabia Felix. 



ALLITMINOR, from the Fieiich n/A//H.-r, to hghten, is 

 ufcd for one who coloiireth or p:iinti.tli upon paper or parch- 

 ment ; and the rcafun is, becaufe he gives light and or- 

 niment by his colours to the letters, or other figures. Such 

 oniaments are ftvled illuminations. The wi-rd is ufed in 

 ilat. I Rich, ill.' cap. 9. But now fuch apcrlon is called a 

 Jimnrr. 



ALLUMINOUS, any thing that contains allum, or par- 

 takes of the nature and qualities of that salt. 



Crew defcribes fome extraordiiiai7 kinds of allummous 

 .earths in the repofitorv of the Royal Society. 



At LUMINOUS 6%, Earth, and Schyi, in Agiiaillure. 

 See Clay, Earth, and Schist. 



Alluminous ivaters, are thofe impregnated with the 

 j.articles of that fait. 



Jlhim'moiis ivalers make a fpecies of thofe called mineral 

 or medicinal wateis. 



We have alfo factitious waters, under the denomination 

 of alluminous ; fuch as that called in the (hops aqua ailumhiofa 

 .tnagijicna/is. 



Its preparation is thus: take of rock-alliim, and white 

 fublimate, ana 3ii. boil them in rofe and plantain water, 

 .-ana Ifc i. till half is confumed ; filter the remainder, and keep 

 it for ufe. 



This is prefcribed againft deformities of the ll<in, and 

 often for the itch ; but it is an uncertain remedy, and not to 

 be ufed without caution. 



ALLUSH, or Allush, in Scripturt: Geography, a city 

 of Idumea, which was one of the ftations of the Ifraelites, 

 between Dophkah and Rephidim, in their migration from 

 ,the wilderncfs of Sin to that of Sinai. Numbers, xx.xiii. 

 13, 14. Eufebius and St. Jerom fix Allufli near Gabala, t. e. 

 Pctra, the capital of Arabia PetiKa. In the accounts of 

 the empire, it is fituated in the third Paleftine, and by 

 Ptolemy among the cities of Idumea. It is alfo called 

 Eluza or Chaluza. The Jerufalem Targum, in Gen. xxv. 

 18. and in Exod. xvi. 22. tranflates the defeit of Seir by 

 .AlKifn. Calmet. 



ALLUSION, Allusio, formed of aJ, and lujire, to 

 play, in Rhtt'jric, a figure whereby fomething is applied to, 

 or underflood of another, by reafon of fome fimihtude of 

 name, or found. 



Camden defines allufioii a dalliance, or playing with words 

 alike in found, but unhke in fenfe ; by changing, adding, 

 or fubtradling a letter, or two ; whence words refembling 

 one another become applicable to different fubjefts. Thus 

 the Almighty, if we may ufe facred authority, changed 

 Abram, ;. e. high father, into Abraham, ;'. e. father of 



many Thus the Romans played on their tipphng emperor 



Tiberius Nero, by calling him Biberius Mero : and thus in 

 Qninftilian the four fellow Placidus is called Acidns. 



Allufion is a fpecies of Comparison, not extending to 

 a Simile, and confiding chiefly in comparing one faft with 

 another. The moft fanciful and poetical is, when two fafts, 

 bearing a remote refemblance in a few circumftances, are 

 compared ; of which we have a beautiful example in one of 

 Dr. Ogden's fermons. " If it be the obfcure, the minute, 

 the ceremonial parts of religion for which we are contending, 

 though the triumph be empty, the difpute is dangerous ; 

 like the men of Ai we purfue, perhaps, fome little party 

 that flies before us, and are anxious that not a ftraggler 

 (hould efcape, but when we look behind us we behold our city 

 in flames." Lowth's Leftures by Gregory, vol. i. p. 251. 



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Allufior.5 are nearly allied to wliat we popularly call 

 puns. 



ALLUVI.'VL LiMESTOKK, in Agriculture, a fort of foft 

 limeftoue found in many diftrifts, iuppofed to have been 

 for.tied in the early ages of the world by the difpoiition of 

 calcareous matters held in the ftate of folulion in water. 

 This kind of limellone is fuppofed by Dr. Darwin, in his 

 Philofophy of Agriculture, to contain magiiefia, which it 

 probably may have acquired from the fea-water in which it 

 was originally diffulved. Such limellone as contaiiis mag- 

 nefia has been found, by the experiments of Mr. Tennaiit, 

 to be much lefs ufeful when burnt into lime, for the purpofes 

 of acrriculturc, than fuch as is purely of the calcareous 

 kind. 



ALLUVION, Alluvio, formed of adluo, I luafl} to, 

 compounded of ad and lavo, in the Ciniil Law, a gradual 

 addition or accretion made along the fea-fhore, or the banlts 

 of large rivers. 



The civil law places alluvion among the lawful means of 

 acquifition ; and defines it to be a latent, imperceptible ac- 

 cretion Hence, where any confiderable portion of ground 



is torn away at once, by an inundation, and joined to fome 

 neighbouring ellate, this is not acquired by right of allu- 

 vion, but may declaimed ag-jn by the former owner. 



Bracton fays, that if an ifliuid arife in the middle of a 

 river, it belongs in common to thofe w ho have lands on each 

 iide of it ; but if it be nearer to one bank than the other, 

 it belongs only to him who is proprietor of the neareft 

 fhore ; which is agieeable to the civil law. However, if 

 the whole foil of the river is the freehold of any one 

 man, as it ufually is when a feveral fifliery is claimed, in this 

 cafe it feems juft, and fuch is the conftant practice, that the 

 eyotts or fittle iflands, arifing in any part of the river, fliall 

 be the property of him who owneth the pifcary and the foil. 

 But if a new ifland rife in the fea, though the civil law gives 

 it to the firft occupant, yet ours gives it to the king. And 

 as to lands gained from the fea, either by alluvion, by the 

 wafhing up of fand and earth, fo as in time to make terra 

 firma, or hy iterelillion, as when the fea {brinks back below 

 the ufual water-mark ; in thefe cafes the law is held to be, 

 that if this gain be by little and little, by finall and imper- 

 ceptible degrees, it Ihall go to the owner of the land adjoin- 

 ing ; for de miiiiinis /ion curat lex : and, befides, tliefe 

 owners being often lofers by the breaking in of the fea, or 

 at charges to keep it out, this poffihle gain is therefore a 

 reciprocal confideration for fucli poiTible charge or lofs. But 

 if the alluvion or dereliclion be fudden and confiderable, in 

 this cafe it belongs to the king ; for, as the king is lord of 

 the fea, and fo owner of the foil while it is covered with 

 water, it is but realonable he fliould have the foil when the 

 water has left it dry ; fo that the quantity of ground 

 gained, and the time during which it is gaining, are the 

 circumftances that make it either the king's, orthefubiedl's 

 property. In the fame manner, if a river, running between 

 two lordlhips, by degrees gains upon the one, and thereby 

 leaves the other dry ; the owner who lofes his ground thus 

 imperceptibly, has no remedy ; but if the courfe of the 

 river be changed by a fudden and violent flood, or other 

 hafty means, and thereby a man lofes his ground, it is faid 

 that he {hall have what the river has left in any other place, 

 as a recompence for this fudden lofs. And this law of allu- 

 vions and derelictions, with regard to rivers, is nearly the 

 fame in the Imperial law ; from whence our determinations 

 feem to have been declared and adopted ; but we ourfelves, 

 as iflanders, have apphed them to marine increafes ; and 

 6 have 



