The crystals of citric acid are oblique prisms with four faces, terminated by dihedral summits, inclined at acute angles.
In September 1900 a fresh outburst of hostile feeling against Chile was created in Argentina by a note addressed by the Chilean government to Bolivia, intimating that Chile was no longer inclined to hand over the port of Arica or any other port on the Pacific, but considered the time ripe for a final settlement of the questions connected with the Chilean occupation of Bolivian territory, which had now been outstanding for sixteen years.
On the other hand, there are elements in the poem which show that it is not entirely the work of a poor crowder; and these notably references to historical and literary authorities, and occasional reminiscences of the literary tricks of the Scots Chaucerian school have inclined some to the view that the text, as we have it, is an edited version of the minstrel's rough song story.