Record Details
pages 134-135
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025bp http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,282 |
| Title | pages 134-135 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-12 |
| 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. 93,049 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 | I am not particularly impressed with the Peterborough, but prefer something of the type I had made. The faults I find with them, are, first, the bottom is too straight, longitudinally, and for that reason they do not quickly respond to oars or paddles, and, second, their thin, rounded sides will not stand much buffeting against the rocks, and are easily punctured. If I had attempted to line a Peterborough down Kinbasket Rapids, without assistance, as I did COLUMBIA, by the time the lower end... |
