topographer
a specialist in topography.
a person who describes the surface features of a place or region.
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How to use topographer in a sentence
Everyone from government topographers and fur traders to missionaries imposing their beliefs onto Indigenous communities headed across the Mississippi River toward the Midwest.
Morris, who spent a decade as an Atlanta topographer, didn't really like to work.
The topographer says he "describes with the language of a master, the artless scenes of uncultivated nature."
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, | Samuel FeltonThe old topographer informs us that in the time of Richard II.
A History of the Cries of London | Charles HindleySurely Thackeray, especially in the “Ballads,” mentions many places not alluded to by the new topographer.
Lost Leaders | Andrew Lang
And the feature which strikes the topographer is of course that which would naturally give the name.
The River-Names of Europe | Robert FergusonWe pursued them through passages and halls whose confused arrangement would craze the best military topographer.
Saragossa | Benito Prez Galds
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