Record Details
pages 122-123
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025bj http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,276 |
| Title | pages 122-123 |
| 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. 129,176 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 | fitting into a metal socket set in a block nailed fast to the gunwale. I had had the neck of the "U" closed just enough so that the oar could not be raised directly out of the rowlock but had first to be drawn inward about a foot before it could be released. About each oar, at its normal rowing seat, leather sleeves were tacked, at the upper end of which a collar, made of small cotton rope enclosed in leather, was also tacked around the oar. The rowlocks were then loosely tied to the gunwales... |
