Record Details
pages 150-151
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025bx http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,290 |
| Title | pages 150-151 |
| 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. 96,914 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 | easy, merely gliding down a smooth flowing incline. I did this in the usual manner, stern first, but in three-quarters of a mile had to go ashore on the right—the River was contracted still more than above, and there was a vicious rapid below. There is almost always a contraction of the channel at the head of rapids with a sharp descent below. The rapids are caused by either submerged or protruding rocks over, or against which the swiftly moving water dashes and throws upward great... |
