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Updated: June 14, 2025
The Government of Venice in the fifteenth century seems to have fully shared in the reverence felt throughout the rest of Europe for the remains of the bodies of the saints. Even strangers who lived in Venice found it well to adapt themselves to this superstition. If we can judge of scholarly Padua from the testimony of its topographer Michele Savonarola, things must have been much the same there.
Do let him go to sleep, or else warn me, so I can get out of the way." "You'd better try this, you fellows," advised Ned. "It's fine; the best bed I've had since I left home." "What's going on here?" asked Dr. Brownlee, moving up to the group, in company with Louise and her faithful attendant, the topographer, just as Howard and Charlie stretched themselves out beside Ned.
The determination of the heights of mountains by triangulation is, of course, the method that in general commends itself to the topographer, though it may be questioned whether the very general use of aneroids for barometric determinations has not thrown this latter means of measuring altitudes into undeserved discredit when the mercurial barometer is used instead of its convenient but unreliable substitute.
Howard and Ned attached themselves to the transitman, and took turns as head and rear chain, while Grant superintended the levelling, and Charlie trudged along in the rear with the young topographer, who had taken a sudden fancy to the boy, and gave him frequent lectures on the theory and practice of surveying, until his pupil longed for the time when he too could wear on his watch-chain the tiny blue shield, with its golden date and initials.
That was by no means merely the private opinion of the individual topographer but the opinion of the age; for each century has not only its own peculiar theory of life it has also its own peculiar theory o£ natural scenery.
"Ah! ah!" cried D'Artagnan, "you are of the household of M. Fouquet, then, Porthos?" "I! what do you mean by that?" said the topographer, blushing to the top of his ears. "Why, you say the house, when speaking of Belle-Isle, as if you were speaking of the chateau of Pierrefonds." Porthos bit his lips. "Belle-Isle, my friend," said he, "belongs to M. Fouquet, does it not?" "Yes, I believe so."
There has been too much conjecture about the early history of Gray's Inn, and the sober-minded topographer is warned off at the outset by a number of inconsistent assertions as to the early existence here of a school of law. Dugdale tells us that the manor was granted to the Priory of Shene in the reign of Henry VII., and after the dissolution it was rented by a society of students of the law.
Porthos," cried D'Artagnan, letting his arms fall as a conquered man gives up his sword; "ah! my friend, you are not only a Herculean topographer, you are, still further, a dialectician of the first water." "Is it not powerfully reasoned?" said Porthos: and he puffed and blew like the conger which D'Artagnan had let slip from his hand.
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