Caillet, Guillaume

See JACQUERIE. Cailliaud, FREDERIC, (kail'le-ō,) a French traveller and geologist, B. at Nantes, 1787. After visiting Holland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Sicily, he pa ed into Egypt, and, under the auspices of the Pasha, explored a portion of the Nile. He afterwards went into Nubia, and discovered, on Mount Zabarah, the emerald-mines which had been worked in the reigns of the Ptolemies; and was enabled, by his own exertions, to transmit to the pasha ten pounds' weight of the precious stones which he found in the vast excavations of the mountain. He visited Thebes, and returned to Paris in 1819; but, before the expiration of the same year, he once more set out for Egypt, to prosecute his travels. He now visited the remains of the temple of Ammon, and other oases in the desert, and subsequently discovered A our, above the confluence of the Taccazze with the Nile. In 1822 he returned to Paris, and afterwards took up his residence in Nantes. The results of his travels and discoveries are given to the world in various volumes. D. 1869. Caillie', RENÉ, a French traveller, B. 1799 at Mauzé, and celebrated for his journey to Timbuctoo. His notes of travel, arranged by M. Jomard, were published under the title of Journal d'un Voyage à Tombouktou et d Jenné dans l'Afrique Centrale, 3 vols., Paris, 1830.D.1838, Cailloma, or CAYLLOMA, a town of Peru, cap. of a province of the same name, dep. of Are quip a; pop. of province abt. 27,000. Caillou Lake, ( kail - loo ' ,) in Louisiana , in Terre Bonne parish, 2 m. N. of the Gulf of Mexico, and about 10 m. long. It is connected with the Gulf of Mexico by Caillou Bayou.