The gestures too of a race are of importance in eliciting correct information, for it is obvious that where, on rugged mountain sides, ascent or descent can only be practised by the aid of the hands as well as of the feet, the terms for "up" and "down" may be significant of surrounding topography,

His energy and determination carried him through the campaign with more than credithe was able to illustrate modern methods of field topography in a manner which threw new light on what was then but a tentative and undeveloped system.

At the close of the war, which brought no recognition of his exceptional services, he was appointed to the Kohát survey party, which was primarily raised for the mapping of the Kohát district, but which afforded occasional opportunities for extending topography across the border.

When this party was first raised our frontier maps were of the most elementary character; there was many a wide blank in the topography of the lower borderland, and geographical darkness shrouded nearly the whole line of frontier mountains.

Mr. Gell, of Hopton Hall, father of Sir William Gell, well known for his topography of Troy.

It is impossible for me to say what changes may have occurred in the topography of the town, during almost a century and a half since Michael Johnson retired from business, and ninety years, at least, since his son's penance was performed.

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In [6032]Germany, France, Britain, Scandia, Poland, Muscovy, they are not so troubled with this feral malady, although Damianus a Goes, which I do much wonder at, in his topography of Lapland, and Herbastein of Russia, against the stream of all other geographers, would fasten it upon those northern inhabitants.

[Footnote 7: This might be said of the scene of the second act of The Benefit of the Doubt; but here the actual stage-topography is natural enough.

So the battle was a drawn one for a long while, but eventually Niger's men got decidedly the advantage both by their numbers and by the topography of the country.

From an Engraving of the Topography of Paris, in the Collection of Engravings of the National Library.]

From an ancient Engraving of the Topography of Paris, in the Collection of Engravings of the National Library.

He introduced me to his son by saying: 'This is Mr. Morse, the painter, the son of the geographer; he has come to Washington to take the topography of my face.'

An ignorance of the topography of Floridathe position of the numerous swamps and hummocks, the usual hiding-places of the Indians.

Histories, descriptions, maps, and prints, are all imperfect and defective, when compared to this immense Panoramathey are scraps and mere touches of the pen and pencilwhilst this imparts, at a glance, at one view, a cyclopædia of informationa concentrated historya focal topography, of the largest and most influential city in the world.

Mr. Lysons's explanation of this preference to Pancras by the Catholics is, however, disputed by the author of Ecclesiastical Topography, who observes that a reason more generally given is, that "Pancras was the last church in England where mass was performed after the Reformation.

Mythology, history, art, manners, topography, have all their fitting representatives.

We have received the following Catalogues: "Catalogue of most splendid and truly valuable Ancient Manuscripts upon Vellum and Paper, particularly rich in History and Topography, Heraldry and County Visitations, Pedigrees and Family History, Ancient Charters, Royal Grants and other Documents of peculiar interest to the Antiquary and Historian, on sale by Thomas Thorpe, 13.

It will contain, amongst other subjects, a large collection of Books on HERALDRY, GENEALOGY, and FAMILY HISTORY, a few Books on ANGLING, some early ENGLISH DICTIONARIES, Books of POETRY, HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, and ENGRAVINGS, with various works in other interesting departments of Miscellaneous Literature.

Accompanied by two of my female friends, and escorted by a gentleman who was well acquainted with the topography of the city, we set out on foot, traversing blind alleys and dark lanes, and thus obtaining a better idea of the intricacies of the place than we could possibly have gained by any other means.

" (See the 'Gaelic Topography of Scotland', by James A. Robertson, Edinburgh, 1859.)Ed.] * *

A spirit of perversity seems to have entered into the very topography of this quarter.

Schools of divinity, law, and topography were founded in the 12th century.

Carver, professing freedom from any tincture of credulity, leaves us 'to draw what conclusions we please.' The natural inference is 'private information,' about which the only difficulty is that Carver, who knew the topography and the chances of a secret messenger arriving to prompt the Jossakeed, does not allude to this theory.

In this it was stipulated that Mitchell's and Map A should be admitted to the exclusion of all others "as the only maps that shall be considered as evidence" of the topography of the country, and in the latter of these maps, constructed under the joint direction of the British and American negotiators by the astronomer of the British Government, it was agreed that nothing but the water courses should be represented.