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pages 158-159

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025cb http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,294
Title pages 158-159
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.
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Description could have reached the Ferry, nine miles below, by nightfall. As it was' I had made eleven miles on my third day in the rapids. On examining the River in the morning it was evident that it had risen a foot over night. On the previous afternoon, just below where I landed, was a small, rock-strewn channel, nearly dry, but now it contained ample water so that by wading, and maneuvering the boat around the rocks she could be taken across the point, and below all dangerous water. I put this plan...

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