It is hard to find any sure sign of its being in Roman times, but it must be the "Tirhennium quae et Trana" of the geographer Guido.
In his pages the city bears a name which is evidently the same as the name which it bears still, but which the august geographer seizes on as the subject of one of his wonderful bits of etymology.
Champlain made a third, joining the expedition asgeographer rather than shipmaster.
Champlain was a geographer and preoccupied with exploration.
Apart from any effect which it may have had in securing for him the title of Geographer to the King, it shows his own aspiration to be a geographer.
A German geographer who much admired the work suggested that an appropriate mark of appreciation would be to name the new continent America, after Vespucci, and this was done.
Master William Simons the geographer when they had finished, between them, the new map of Virginia.
He was a friend of the geographer Strabo, who gives an account of the expedition (xvi.
The Work of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer in South America Portions of South America are now entering on a career of great social and industrial development.
It was astonishing before, when we were on a river of about the size of the upper Rhine or Elbe, to realize that no geographer had any idea of its existence.
We were within the southern boundary of this great equatorial forest, on a river which was not merely unknown but unguessed at, no geographer having ever suspected its existence.
The explorer is merely the most adventurous kind of field geographer; and there are two or three points worth keeping in mind in dealing with the South American work of the field geographer and field zoologist.
In 1735, Philip Buache, whose name as a geographer is justly celebrated, inaugurated a new method in his chart of the depths of the English Channel, by using contour levels to represent the variations of the soil.
His name is often quoted by geographers, and they appear to know what countries he visited; but in France, at least, no lengthened notice of this geographer exists which would furnish the details of his exploration.
It was no longer possible to confound the three rivers, as the French geographer Delisle had done, in 1707, when he represented the Niger as running eastward from Bornu, and flowing into the river Senegal on the west.
A little further on he justly criticizes the maps of a geographer who had at one time been famous.
In spite of the interest of these and similar discoveries, there are few new facts for the geographer to glean.
Each settlement in turn, as it came into prominence or provoked curiosity, found its geographer and annalist, and here and there sporadic pens essayed some practical topic.
In the 10th century an Arab geographer described it as the great port of Palestine and the emporium of the Hejaz.
From the time of the geographer Ptolemy, the southern part of Sweden seems to have continued in the possession of the less enterprising remnant of the nation, and a large territory is even at present divided into east and west Gothland.
Footnote 77: By an error of the geographer Ptolemy, the position of Singara is removed from the Aboras to the Tigris, which may have produced the mistake of Peter, in assigning the latter river for the boundary, instead of the former.
Footnote 18: The Alexandrian Geographer is often criticized by the accurate Cluverius.
The fragmentary political geography of the Danube basin gives the geographer the impression of an artist's crayon studies of details, destined later to be incorporated in a finished picture.
They tell the geographer a far different story from that of the small detached French holding of Kwang-chan Bay and Nao-chan Island on the southern coast of China, which are outposts of the vigorous French colony of Tongking.
The division of the area of a land by the length of its coastline yields a quotient which to the anthropo-geographer is not a dry figure, but an index to the possible relations between seaboard and interior.
The anthropo-geographer recognizes the various social forces, economic and psychologic, which sociologists regard as the cement of societies; but he has something to add.
That great military geographer Napoleon distinguished the Italy of the Po basin as Italie continentale, and the Apennine section as Presqu'ile.
The geographer must investigate the questions when and where deeper shades develop in the skins of fair races; what is the significance of dark skins in the cold zones and of fair ones in hot zones.
It has brought disorder into the question of the European or Asiatic origin of the Aryan linguistic family, which the anthropo-geographer would assign to the single continent of Eurasia.
The modern geographer does not indulge in the naive hypothesis of the last century, which assumed a prompt and direct effect of environment upon the form and features of man.
To the anthropo-geographer the map of western Africa presents the picture of a political situation wholly immature, even embryonic.
See also on the abundance of dates, the extracts from an Arabian geographer in Quatremere, Recherches sur l'Egypte, pp.
I am become a walking gazette amongst the people, and ought to be dubbed "Geographer of The Desert.
It was reserved, however, for the geographer in his study to identify the discoveries of Carteret with the Isles of Salomon of Mendana.
Thus the lost archipelago was found, not so much by the fortuitous course of the navigator as by the patient investigations of the geographer in his study.
He is said to have been a good Greek scholar, and after leaving the University travelled and became an eminentgeographer and mathematician.
In this delicate matter Hariot was Sir Walter's geographer and assayer, while Hariot's old college friend, Keymis, was his factor or shipping agent.
It is called by the Greek geographer Diodorus the "tomb of Osymandyas".
Even as late as the middle of the seventeenth century Heylin, the most authoritative English geographer of the time, shows a like tendency to mix science and theology.
In fact, he can no more divorce his attention from the results of geological inquiry than the political geographer can shut his eyes to the facts of History.
It would be a very easy matter to adduce many further illustrations to show how close is the connection between the studies of the physical geographer and the geologist.
The physical geographer says that the plants grow there simply because they obtain at high levels in low latitudes the favourable climatic conditions underneath which they flourish at low levels in high latitudes.
I do not indeed exaggerate when I say that no one can hope to become a geologist who is not well versed in Physical Geography; nor, on the other hand, can the physical geographer possibly dispense with the aid of Geology.
The physical geographer notes all these remarkable phenomena, but he can give us no clue to their meaning.
The moment, therefore, the physical geographer begins to inquire into the origin of any particular physical feature, he enters upon the domains of the geologist.
But it will be said that, after all, the physical geographer deals with the earth as we now find it; he does not need to trouble himself with the origin of the phenomena he describes.
So the political geographer can map out for us the present limits of the various countries of Europe, but History must be invoked if we would know how those boundaries came to be determined.
In fact, the spot where the remains of the great geographer and discoverer are supposed to rest, seems to be the site on which the new Post Office in the Upper Town has lately been built.
Reclus (Jean Jacques Elisee), French geographer and socialist, the son of a Protestant minister, b.
The leading map publishers have endorsed his claims, and do so in a way that leaves no doubt that they place implicit confidence in him as a careful and trustworthygeographer and historian.
Brockhaus, Geographer and Publisher of Leipsic, Germany: "I shall not fail to recognize and call public attention to your important discovery of the True Head of your Great River.
In the opinion of the older critics, St. Luke was thus plainly convicted of a mistake and of a flagrant contradiction of that great authority the geographer Strabo.
Azud ed-Dowleh to facilitate communication by water between Basra and Ahvaz, as related by the Arab geographer Mukaddasi A.
The next great geographer was Strabo, born in the northeast part of Asia Minor in the year 64 B.
The geographer is not able to follow Captain Smith to Nalbrits.
By his diligent study he became the best English geographer of his time; he was the historiographer of the East India Company, and the best informed man in England concerning the races, climates, and productions of all parts of the globe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "geographer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
