hydrographical
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British hydrographical research costs $500,000 a year; the great dam at Aswan, built to regulate the Nile's flow, took three years to build, had to be thrice heightened, cost $21,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
With his arms full of rolled-up hydrographical survey maps, he got out and started for the church.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
“Not to mention what the bureau has sunk into a dozen planning reports, hydrographical surveys, maps, cost-benefit analysis, and—you know,” Roland Kyburz added.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
D'Urville made no pause in the hydrographical survey of the northern island of New Zealand, keeping up daily communication with the natives, who brought him supplies of pigs and potatoes.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by N. D'Anvers
I still distinctly recollect the untamed aspect which the country exhibited when first I entered the beautiful basin, which thus became the scene of my early hydrographical operations.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
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