Record Details
pages 30-31
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025p http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,246 |
| Title | pages 30-31 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-06 |
| 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. 121,630 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 249, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description |
CHAPTER III BOAT BUILDING AND HAPPENINGS AT CANAL FLAT On the following day, May 31, I began the construction of a boat to carry me on my river journey. The lumber bought at Wardner had a length of but 18 feet, and as 20 feet was the shortest lumber I had heretofore used in boat-building it was necessary to prepare a new design to obtain the proper dimensions and lines. This I did by constructing a small model, to scale, representing half the boat longitudinally. An inch board,... |
