orography
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Origin of orography
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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 Jules Verne
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 Jules Verne
Beyond question the orography is more accurately given than anywhere else; in this respect, indeed, no other country can compare with it.
From Above the Snow Line by Clinton Thomas Dent
It possessed a special orography, a mountain system which made it a world apart.
From The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne
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
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