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pages 38-39

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025t http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,250
Title pages 38-39
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-06
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Description CHAPTER IV
THE ORIGIN AND MEANDERINGS OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER Our boat-building activities being at an end, and now having some leisure, it behooves us (I assume that the reader will now, if he has not already, join me in spirit if he cannot in person), to take time to look at our surroundings, size up the country we are in, and prime ourselves with all the information we can about the Columbia River, its early history and discovery, and where it goes on its meandering to the sea....

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