GUM 
Pao in Engineers ; is amame in fome places for the 
am-plates or rails laid for the ufe of tram-waggons. 
ULL IPA NAIG, in’ Geography, a town of Hin- 
dott, inthe Carnatic; 28 miles W.S.W. of Madura. - . 
-GULMA, a town of Morung; 85 miles E. of Amer~ 
PGULNY; a'town ‘of ems in the country of a fe 
14 miles $.E. of Cathy. 
-GULO.. See Grurron 
. GULo, in Zoology. See Ursus Gul. 
 GULOICK, Zs iaiiiagia: See Im 
_GULT, in Geograph hy, a town of Pri, in the ede 
atangen; nine miles $.5.W. 0 
C 
iS 
a Cala Grand 
? 
is very beautifully variegated with black 
al god colored feathers. It feeds on fruits. 
Ow, a ceegraphy; a town of Hinder Pomerania ; 
ty: miles S.E. of Cumm 
GUM, Gummi, a mito iets or refinous juice, guiding 
ees, chiefly of 
through the’ pore 
pical ¢ 
and gw 
by. the following reletil © 
properties ; it is infipid, aiffolable4 in water, 
witht a vifcid tranfpare nt fluid ; but not diffoluble in iaeahol 
— b by nor cryltallizable ; 3; but ‘after the: 
ion has been evaporated’ to dr/; nefs, it is aga 
als in water without feeming to have undergone any ma- 
hen kept for fomé time it is flowly altered, 
omes mouldy and fomewhat four. By being heated’ 
ignition it {wells and foftens, affumes a ran el brown,” 
3 colour, exhales a denfe vapour of a pungent 
sd fl and burns with much hie at length a foft 
Te: ey ra 
"one pureit of the gum-mucilages is eum arabic or Sene 
and fimilar to this, Bite jaferior th fuslieys'9 is the prrin 
i m that oozes from cracks im plum, peach, apricot,’ 
3 » and other fruit trees ; and which may alfo be 
obtained from feveral plants, fuch as the lichens, the leaves- 
a and mullein, the root of the hare-bell, and’ 
whole plant of the marfh-mallow, by. fimple’ decoétion 
lich.“ In order to obtain gum from the 
hen, —. known mofs, that grows ie on forett: 
fruit » and in the north of Euro 
growing to the length of a foot or more, vit re to saa 
| animals, lord serge ¢ Binet the following di- 
ist? Phil. Mag. vol. x. ) Below the fkin of the lichen 
cn chi refinous fubftance, and the refidue of the plant 
chiefly of gum and of fibrous matter, which is not aéted 
In order to feparate the {kin and refinous 
. ter, the plant mutt be fealded two or three times with boil- - 
» which Seas the fkin to crack, hen _and peel 
of Ite Atis th ea be put into ‘a boiler, 
OF nero every pound 
of the plant, and about 
Jal ato Sates the big thu or os which hp the extrac-.. 
— fe all be continued till the Bes ac-* 
igor i ie dence of gummy confiften ‘he’ 
rie net to be Rained from the plant, and frefh water . 
a 
G ie ; 
ULUBUR, a town of New Navarre, 3 F264 miles: - SW, 
- foluble in water, 468 foiths a reeaeanage with it 
-end of the infpiffation mix intimately the refinous ae wi 
ut Fr 
t their eke and congeal all about the em in fo 
: GUM 
added to the i material, for the purpofe of further exe ; 
hel the The eveval liquors, after aving been 
allowed to fatto, “and the drugs ‘being removed, are to be 
coloured or three boilings ‘are neceflary entirely to. 
eh the lichen of its mucilage. » Another fj pecies of native 
mucilage is - Mme ANTH 3 which fee. See Muci.aae, . 
and gum Ana 
Gum Rolins’s are the j a pd which flow from n many kinds of — 
trees, and whic crete by the evaporation of their - 
fineft fluid parts, ‘nearly in eit natural ftate e, and retainin 
or a confiderable time ‘thé fenfible properties of f{mell a Ss 
tafte. ts ier as gaa 2 aye Ries rts, the diftin- 
‘guittiny part is saa 
The refinous 
part gives them the property of burning with much flame, , 
melting in drops by the heat ; and the gummy. part, thitir 
partial folubility in water. “For the complete ion of of a 
um-refin, the refinous ° art miuft be fe jarat 
He puincveh 
has fubfided, oti retains fome uf the talte anit ne of ape 
TAN) is very 
upon the whole, thatthe term nur 
pharmaceutical than’a ¢hemica See 
im-retins, for medical purpo lab endercd pure, > 
by boiling them in ad until hey folten, atid then: paffed ° 
through a _hempen 3 afterwards let them be fet g Pye ; 
_ Pour off and evaporate 
) Swe fily may bé pu urified by. 
putting them 3 into an ox-bladder, and holding them in boiling. - 
Gum ie: ‘ 
GoM ‘hiedie™ See Mise 
‘Gum Anime. See ANIME. 
Gum A les, 3 in tdi redoc, and fome other parte of? 
e juice of apples will fometimes exfudate through 
le 
white gum, ‘hard like ice, becaufe of its bei 
the fun into a thin cake. - | Ee 
me gelée, or a frozen apple. — 0 
pes covered in part. witli this bie in ‘ea eas be 2 
