Record Details
page 6
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_024g http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,226 |
| Title | page 6 |
| 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. 248,596 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 JPEGs created. |
| Description | all. At the age of seven years and a poor boy David Thompson had been placed by his father in a charity school in London, and remained there seven years learning all that was taught, which included a little of navigation, and reading all that came in his way, for he was an omniverous reader. When about fourteen years old (about 1783) the Hudson's Bay Company applied for a suitable boy to enter their service and he was then apprenticed to that Company for a period of seven years, and began... |
