contour map

Viewing it in a large way, and reserving details for later consideration, we may compare it to a topographical contour map.

A contour map in colours such as Bartholomew's "half inch" is a great help in this matter.

We did not need the contour map to know that some of these heights exceeded Yosemite's.

He was a thin little man with a face as wrinkled as a contour map of South America.

Little ridges covered his countenance as if it had been a contour map of a mountainous country.