chartography

A little instruction in the elements of chartography -- a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map -- would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost; would have illumined the one dark alley in my school life.

The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

A little instruction in the elements of chartography – a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map – would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost; would have illumined the one dark alley in my school life.

The Promised Land 1912

I had frequent opportunities to observe these Eskimo ideas of chartography.

The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants 1871

A little instruction in the elements of chartography ” a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map ” would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost; would have illumined the one dark alley in my school life.

The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912