Record Details
pages 44-45
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025w http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,296 |
| Title | pages 44-45 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-06 |
| 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. 128,489 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 | guarded the entrance, he safely entered the River and on May 11, 1792, anchored in fresh water ten miles above its mouth. Gray named the river after his vessel, "Columbia," and that name has since been retained. Gray sailed up the Columbia 35 miles in all, remained ten days, and then departed never to return. But before leaving he took possession of the country in the name of the United States, and as a token of the claim buried some pine tree shillings at the foot of a tree; and thus laid... |
