. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. 12 ALUM the Iitter usually in boxes. The annual imports into thf U. St:>tra arc from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000lbs. Imp. duty (unshtllcd) 0 cli., (shelled) 10 cte. Oil of A i» n flit or cniiny Kiilwtnnco oxprfMcil from sweptmill MUta ? Bp. t-r. ;;. II is pule jillow, but li«;« «hin loiiK . t liKlit- 1 »0 cr* ^MiK^uilly if ill Willi oxygen. It i, The bilU-r oil i9 need in i«r umtry; tlio,w™t oil i. larKPly »^i i , ct.:. A
. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. 12 ALUM the Iitter usually in boxes. The annual imports into thf U. St:>tra arc from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000lbs. Imp. duty (unshtllcd) 0 cli., (shelled) 10 cte. Oil of A i» n flit or cniiny Kiilwtnnco oxprfMcil from sweptmill MUta ? Bp. t-r. ;;. II is pule jillow, but li«;« «hin loiiK . t liKlit- 1 »0 cr* ^MiK^uilly if ill Willi oxygen. It i, The bilU-r oil i9 need in i«r umtry; tlio,w™t oil i. larKPly »^i i , ct.:. Avomgc (duly i«iil) iu Ni York : (^nweot) 80 ct»., tbiltor) $ per lb. Almude, a varialilc for rujuids in ((iiiiitriis. Ill Portugal, the Lisbon ^. = o7palloiis, and the Oporto .1. = 5-0 gallons. InTmkiv and , the almiul — Viol gallon. Aide Fibre, is the very valuable fibre of aloe,a irenus of succulent plants growing in warm coun-tries. It is made into ropes, cables, fishing-liiiea,etc., ai^ is extensively exported from .\ Fig. 10. — , [Fr. ainht; Ger., It., Sp., aloe,] a bitterresinous juice, extracted from the leaves of a suc-culent plant of the genus Aloe. It is used as acoiiimon purgative medicine. Three kinds areknown to druggists, namely, — 1. Snrolrine, fromthe island of Socotra, is sometimes importe<l iuchest-s from the Levant ; it is the purest, thoughseldom to be found genuine in this country; theA. imported from the (ape Colony through Kng-lanil is sometimes by the same name,but it is much inferior in quality; 2d. Hepatic, orliver-colored A., is imported chiefly from IJombayin gourds; a darker kind is brought from ; 3(1. CnbalJine, knoivn by its rank smell, isnseil only for horses. These varieties of A. to diller only in purity, and it is probablethat they be (, in some instances, fromdidtTent species of the same plant. Socotrine sai(i t
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