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Definition of Topographers
1. topographer [n] - See also: topographer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Topographers
Literary usage of Topographers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1821)
"... and to what is described in the route which he is to take, in the works of
Landon and of Legrand, or of other equally accurate topographers. ..."
2. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1816)
"... as will enable future topographers and antiquaries to continue the history
and description, till Time, that universal destroyer, shall have completed ..."
3. Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy: Including the Papal States, Rome by John Murray (Firm) (1843)
"It derives its name from the circumstance that many of the early topographers
were unacquainted with the exact localities. It is now known, however, ..."
4. Mountaineering by Clinton Thomas Dent (1892)
"Mountains have their topographers characters like men, and each kind of mountain
makes its own human friends. Some men climb for excitement, ..."
5. Knocking Around the Rockies by Ernest Ingersoll (1883)
"... because of its isolation, although-not as high as timber-line even. It generally
happens that from a summit you can topographers AT ..."
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