Evidently it was aground and was holding its position against the drifting pack.
We had hoped that some steamer from the north would bring news of war and perhaps letters from home before our departure.
You don't know the tenth part of it," asserted the hydrographer slowly.
The suggestion was carried out immediately by the three to whom it was made, but for a reason of his own the hydrographer contrived to be the last to leave the mapping room.
There was a silence to answer the query, and the hydrographer righted his chair abruptly and closed the opened drawer he had been utilizing for a foot-rest.
When he spoke again the hydrographer had been given time to shave another pipe charge of tobacco from his pocket plug and to fill and light the brier.
Grislow saw him take something out of the pocket of the coat, and the next moment the door opened and closed and the hydrographer was left alone.
You are safely over that stage of it now, at all events," said the hydrographer in exaggerated sarcasm.
Secretary, and Captain Hurd, Hydrographer to the Admiralty, he feels greatly indebted for the communications they favoured him with, and for amenity and politeness which accompanied them.
On his return, Frontenac made him royal pilot for the St. Lawrence; and at about the same time he received the appointment of hydrographer at Quebec.
Franquelin was a young engineer, who held the post of hydrographer to the King, at Quebec, in which Joliet succeeded him.
Letter to the Hydrographer of the Admiralty on the qualifications and claims of the Assistants of the Royal Observatory.
Beaufort the Hydrographer (in whose office this matter rested) begged me with Baily to decide upon it.
The fourth, of the North Atlantic Ocean, was begged of the hydrographer of the navy; a friendly Rhode Island man.
For our lectures the hydrographer again made for the College two very large and handsome maps.
A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography, or the Use of both the Globes, Celestial and Terrestrial; by Joseph Moxon, A Member of the Royal Society, and Hydrographer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty.
Nor should the valuable instructions of Captain Beaufort, Hydrographer to the Admiralty, be forgotten; such extracts as may probably prove of interest to the general reader are here subjoined.
Hydrographer to the Admiralty, for his kindness in furnishing me with some of the accompanying charts; to Sir John Richardson, F.
In Figure 21 the results of the analysis of Oceanographer and Hydrographer canyons are presented.
Its essential features were almost exactly reproduced in a draft of the New World (preserved in the British Museum) assigned to about 1540, and held to be the work of the Portuguese hydrographer Homem.
At the same time the indignant tone of his letter to the Hydrographer seemed to have done good; he was invited to explain matters in person, and was granted the leave he asked for.
He was afterwards for a time hydrographer to the East India Company, and was then appointed the first hydrographer to the Admiralty.
Wharton, the late hydrographer to the Admiralty, says: "The Charts he made during these years in the schooner Grenville were admirable.
On his return made royal pilot for the St. Lawrence, and hydrographer of the colony.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hydrographer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
