I found that tartaric acid would precipitate the mud, leaving a jug of the water tolerably clear, but then the acid remained.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
Natural dissymmetrical substances-gum, sugar, tartaric and malic acids, quinine, strychnine, essence of turpentine, and the like-may be and are employed in forming new compounds which remain dissymmetrical though they are artificially prepared.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
The seed of the cacao contains several substances: cacao butter, albumin, theobromine, starch, glucose, gum, tartaric acid, free or combined, tannin, and mineral substances.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera