Record Details
pages 112-113
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025be http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,271 |
| Title | pages 112-113 |
| 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. |
| 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. 131,648 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 | road curve to the left and was soon within the confines of the canon, an eroded gorge through the neck that once united the two mountain ranges. The canon is about three-fourths of a mile long, narrows up, at water level to not more than 200 feet in places, and is quite crooked. The current is very swift, swinging back and forth from rocky point to rocky point. There are no rapids, but many eddies and whirlpools, and one dangerous maelstrom at the lower end. Before going further, as there... |
