orography
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Origin of orography
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It possessed its own peculiar orography, a mountainous system, making it a world in itself.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules
At that moment there stretched to the left one of the finest amphitheatres in lunar orography.
From The Moon-Voyage by Verne, Jules
Probably the best description of the topography and the orography of the island yet presented is that given by Mr. Robert T. Hill, of the United States Geological Survey.
From Cuba, Old and New by Robinson, Albert G. (Albert Gardner)
Who could advance objections against conscientious observers, who at less than twenty-four miles distance had marked that curious mountain of Tycho, the strangest system of lunar orography?
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules
At this moment, to the left, lay extended one of the finest circles of lunar orography, one of the curiosities of this continent.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules
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