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pages 76-77

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025am http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,312
Title pages 76-77
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-07
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Description Image Caption: BRIDGE ACROSS THE COLUMBIA AT SPILLAMACHEEN --page break-- The next day the River and valley appeared about the same, except that evidences of logging and sawmill activities soon became manifest. At Parsons I came to a log boom, blocking the River, and I had to get out on the logs, submerge them and then drag the COLUMBIA across, soon reaching another boom, completely blocking the River, and the logs too large to be crossed over. The bottom land was flooded here and I...

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