[mod. f. Gr. ἔθνο-ς nation + -γραφια writing.] The scientific description of nations or races of men, with their customs, habits, and points of difference.
1834. Penny Cycl., II. 97. The term ethnography (nation-description) is sometimes used by German writers in the sense which we have given to anthropography.
1857. De Quincey, China, Wks. 1871, XVI. 233. The Englishman … of Chinese ethnography has not a house, except in crevices of rocks.
1868. Gladstone, Juv. Mundi, vii. (1870), 206. It is in truth a main key to the ethnography of the poems.
1878. Reclus, in Encycl. Brit., VIII. 613/1 s.v., Ethnography embraces the descriptive details, and ethnology the rational exposition, of the human aggregates and organizations.
