hachure

Relief is shown by hachure with towns, cities, and major topographical features identified.

At a further remove there are the squalid block of flats, Flamingo Court down in Umbilo Road, where Halley's maternal Granny Margery lives, and also the area "back of the Berea Ridge, the maze of lanes behind Entabeni Hospital" (40) where her paternal grandmother Nana's much younger sister, Aunty Elda, and her husband Byron have a house, and where the narrative mapping more explicitly foregrounds the language of cartography: "Always, although she doesn't have the word, Halley pictures this space using hachures, the contour lines on a map showing the steepness of a hill.

Sur ces cartes, l'interpenetration des deux echelles a ete realisee par une superposition cartographique ou le type de regions est represente par des hachures plus ou moins serrees alors que le type de localite est represente par differentes teintes de grise.

pres du genou droit, l'observateur attentif eut remarque sur le fond grisatre de l'etoffe un travail regulier de hachures d'un ton plus vigoureux, qui temoignait chez le savant de l'habitude d'essuyer sa plume trop chargee d'encre sur cette partie de son vetement.

numerals, and hachures (shading to indicate mountains or other

This "Paris seen in hachures," as Kafka called it, was an attempt to fragment the impressions of things, in accordance with the facts.