To*pog"ra*phy (?), n. [F. topographie, Gr. ; a place + to write.]
The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.
⇒ Topography, as the description of particular places, is distinguished from chorography, the description of a region or a district, and for geography, the description of the earth or of countries.
Brande & C.
© Webster 1913.