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pages 56-57

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025ac http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,302
Title pages 56-57
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-06
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Description CHAPTER VII
FROM CANAL FLAT TO ATHALMER I am now ready to start on my journey on the waters of the Columbia to the sea. Brede was still with me, and on the morning of June 13, together, we carried my outfit and provisions from the old box-car depot to the little shipyard at the canal. Launching the COLUMBIA for the first time, and finding her seaworthy, we loaded her systematically, with a slight excess of weight in the stern, and getting in I found she drew five inches of water,...

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