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Hydrography

noun
1.
The science of the measurement and description and mapping of the surface waters of the earth with special reference to navigation.





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"Hydrography" Quotes from Famous Books



... much against me; but I consider that circumstance as favourable, inasmuch as the attention of the world will be more strongly attracted towards New Holland, and some comparisons will no doubt be found between our respective labours. Now, in the department of geography, or rather hydrography, the only one where the execution rests with me, they seem to have been very vague and inconclusive, even by their own testimony. By comparison, therefore, my charts will rise in value. It is upon these that ...
— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott


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