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from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to orometry or the measurement of mountains, especially to averages of altitudes: as, “an orometric- anthropogeographical study.”
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The method of anthropo-geography is essentially analytical, and therefore finds little use for general orometric statements, which may be valuable to the science of geo-morphology with its radically different standpoint.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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