Lexicographical Neighbors of Caliches
Literary usage of Caliches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1868)
"... 3500 Pozo de los caliches 3600 Brow of bank below Tana 3556 Tana, lower down
ravine 3132 House at Tana 2900 Point in plain of ..."
2. The Technologist (1861)
"Of chrome it is in very small quantities ; but as to the iodine, Ulex, of Hamburg,
got six-tenths per cent, out of a mixture of caliches. ..."
3. A History of Chile by Anson Uriel Hancock (1893)
"... is a vast chemical laboratory whose nitrate of soda deposits (caliches) furnish
the best known fertilizer in the world. Here enormous fortunes have been ..."
4. Antiquarian, Ethnological, and Other Researches in New Granada, Equador by William Bollaert (1860)
"... and descending a little lower, an extensive salar is entered, having on its
west margin considerable tracts of nitrate caliches. ..."
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