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pages 106-107

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025bb http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,268
Title pages 106-107
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-07
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 the water. The current would catch the rope, drag it down stream, then release it, and it would fly back upstream to repeat the process. It was the flip-flop, flip-flop of this rope that I had heard and thought was someone chopping. The rope was so small that it could not be seen at any considerable distance and when I first became aware of it, it was but fifteen feet away, so close that I was helpless to do anything. It so happened that the rope gave a flop and started to drag with the...

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