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Identifier ORU_WTXT_024i http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,228
Title page 8
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. 254,431 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 ritories, and that the Northwest Company of Merchants from Canada finding the factory of this people inconvenient to them do hereby intend to erect a factory in this place for the Commerce of the Country around." Intelligent students of American history today candidly admit that the American diplomats did exceedingly well in finally placing the line of the Canadian boundary at the 49th parallel of North Latitude, and agree that the work of David Thompson gave a considerable degree of fairness...

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