Record Details
pages 164-165
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025ce http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,325 |
| Title | pages 164-165 |
| 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. |
| 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. 135,404 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 - xx, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | The average annual precipitation in the vicinity of the upper Columbian lakes is 13 inches. This increases as the River is followed, and at Surprise Rapids, where a rain gauge is kept, it is 30 inches. No record was obtainable at the Ferry but the rainfall there must be at least 40 to 45 inches. At Revelstoke it is 42 inches, and in the mountains at the head of the Illecillewaet River it is 100 inches. Below Revelstoke the precipitation decreases until at the Boundary it is but 30 inches.... |
