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pages 62-63

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025af http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,305
Title pages 62-63
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. 104,291 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 Image Caption: COLUMBIA RIVER AT FAIRMONT --page break-- across the valley, from one mountain slope to the other, and the River channel, like a thread of silver, meanders through it, with innumerable, what appeared to be small lakes paralleling it on both sides. One lake, larger than the rest, was strung like a white bead on the silver thread. Willows, cottonwoods, and alders grew everywhere between the apparent lakes, which are really lagoons, except the one the River passes through....

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