Record Details
page 5
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_024f http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,225 |
| Title | page 5 |
| Relation | David Thompson, Pathfinder and the Columbia River |
| Date | 2004-07-04 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 250,953 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiff and generate text file for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiff edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 247, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEG created. |
| Description | fected to the verge of mutiny by the sufferings they shared with him. On the 15th the thermometer was minus 30 degrees. . . . On Saturday, the 29th, thermometer 31 below he started. . . . On New Years Day 1811, thermometer minus 24 degrees, the dogs were unable to move their loads, a cache was made, . . . Thompson struggled on, with ever - increasing difficulty and danger; but there was no alternative. Jan. 4th, he came to a bold defile whence issued the main Athabasca river, `the canoe road... |
