ALUM WORKS, places where alum is prepared, and manufactured in quantities for sale. They differ from alum.
Aluntium alum mines, as in the former an artificial alum, and in the latter natural alum, is produced.
Alypius. ALUNTUM, ALONTIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town in the north of Sicily, situated on a steep eminence, at the mouth of the Chydas; said to be as old as the war of Troy. It is now in ruins; and from these has arisen the hamlet St Philadelfo, in the Val di Demona. The inhabitants were called Haluntini.