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pages 24-25

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025m http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,243
Title pages 24-25
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-06-30
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description about 1,000 feet and is taken up by a number of rapids and low falls and complicated by large rocks; free navigation for small boats, except for the experienced man who knows the waters, does not commence in B. C. at all. I only know one old river captain of the present day who knows the waters thoroughly and he never makes it by the Columbia but runs up the Columbia from Golden and down the Kootenay, thence via Kootenay Lake with various portages to the Columbia River; and thence down that...

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