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TOPOGRAPHY (Gr. TOTOJ, place, yp^fiv, to write), a description of a town, district or locality, giving details of its geographical and architectural features. The term is also applied in anatomy to the mapping out of the surface of the human body, either accor ...

... , 1897), and Institutions y reyes de Aragon, by V. Balaguer (Madrid, 1896). The topography, inhabitants, art, products, &c., of the kingdom are described in a volume of the series Espana entitled Arag6n, by J. M. Quadrado (Barcelona, 1886).

... f Greek life and history from the pre-Mycenaean period down to Roman times, the topography itself shows that the Heraeum must have been constructed before Mycenae and without any regard to it. The foothills which it occupies form the western boundary to the Ar ...

... f papyri (Grenfell, Hunt and Goodspeed, 1907) contains a lengthy account of the topography of the Arsinoite nome. Eurydice by Justin (xxx. 2), and Cleopatra by Livy (xxvii. 4). Her presence greatly encouraged the troop* at the battle of Kaphia (217), in which ...

... omer. He, nevertheless, used telescopes to good purpose in his studies of lunar topography, and his designations for the chief mountainchains and " seas " of the moon have never been superseded. He, moreover, threw out the suggestion (in his Cometographia, 166 ...

... ace in Nature, p. 156; Lord Avebury, Prehistoric Times, p. 317 (1900). ENGLAND [TOPOGRAPHY

... te dynasty the word is used as the equivalent of Habashat (whence the 1 For the topography and later history see SUDAN and ABYSSINIA. [HISTORY modern Abyssinia), which, from the context would appear to denote a tribe located in S. Arabia, whose 'name was rende ...

... 1885); Baedeker's Greece (yd ed., Leipzig, 1905) ; for statistics see GREECE : Topography. (H. F. T.)

... f the continent. With the final melting and disappearance of the ice-sheet, the topography of Europe assumed nearly its present form, and man came upon the scene. Minor changes, such as the separation of Great Britain from the continent, may have occurred at a ...

... r the Onomasticon, the only one extant of a number of writings on Old Testament topography; and an epitome and some fragments of a work in two parts on Gospel Questions and Solutions, the first part dealing with the genealogies of Christ given in Matthew and L ...

... Usu or Uzu was the native name. Owing to the paucity of Phoenician remains the topography of the town and its surroundings is still obscure. The present harbour is certainly the Sidonian port, though it is not so large as it once was; the other ancient harbou ...

... ion with the land districts of which the coast-line is only the border. General Topography and Drainage. — The low Atlantic coast and the hilly or mountainous Pacific coast foreshadow the leading features in the distribution of mountains within the United Stat ...

... se domes far enough to reveal the core of the igneous rock and to give a rugged topography. The highest peaks exceed 11,000 ft. By far the greater part of the high plateau district is drained by the Colorado river and its branches, the most important of which ...

... and endowed by Jai Krishna Mukharji, which is specially rich in books on local topography. There is an aided college, and a girls' school supported by a native association.