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Origin of orography
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As opposed to orography; the water system of a country.
From The Mysterious Island by Stephen W. White
Approaching now, through the high valleys, the central region of the mountain system of Corsica, this may be a proper place for a brief survey of the main features in its orography and geological structure.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
At that moment there stretched to the left one of the finest amphitheatres in lunar orography.
From The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne
It possessed a special orography, a mountain system which made it a world apart.
From The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne
In the lunar orography they have discerned some chains of mountains, which are chiefly distributed over the northern hemisphere.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne
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