Record Details
pages 186-187
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025cp http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,336 |
| Title | pages 186-187 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-14 |
| 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. 102,000 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 | at this point that the Canadian Pacific Railway makes its second crossing of the Columbia from the high bench on the Selkirk side, and just below is the highway bridge. After Steamboat Rapids are passed the River is not so closely confined as above, and it expands until at Revelstoke it is a thousand feet or more wide. I made the turn at the head of the eddy, passed under the two bridges, and at 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon of August 26, reached Revelstoke and pitched my tent on a low,... |
