topography

• Three Gorges Dam, Jia has not only recorded and dramatized the major changes in Chinese topography under accelerated capitalist development. —  GreenCine Daily
• Essentially their contention is that given the bedrock topography, which is like a saucer, ice that melts or is destabilised by moulins needs to pass through gateways where it comes in contact with the sea. —  Larvatus Prodeo
• We attempt little of super-topography, at present, but Ocean of Blood, or Desert of Blood--or both--Italy is nearest to it--or to them I suspect that there were corpuscles in the substance that fell in Switzerland, but all that could be published in 1867 was that in this substance there was a high proportion of "variously shaped organic matter At Giessen, Germany, in 1821, according to the Report of the British Association_, 5-2, fell a rain of a peach-red color. —  The Book of the Damned
• The ships' crews of open pirate vessels had no qualities suitable to the founding of a town; and when there is no direct evidence it is always safer of the two conjectures in English topography to believe that any spot which we find inhabited and flourishing in the Anglo-Saxon period, even at its close, was not a town developed during the Dark Ages but one which the pirates, when they first entered the island, had found already inhabited and flourishing, though sometimes perhaps more British than Roman. —  The Historic Thames
• Of this distance the topography was accurately traced by Captain Douglass and his assistant, Mr. Trowbridge. This officer also took observations for the latitude at every practical point, and collected with much labor the materials for a new and enlarged map. —  Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers

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