Record Details
pages 212-213
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025dc http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,349 |
| Title | pages 212-213 |
| 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. 91,848 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 | United States and crosses the Columbia at Northport. just above the railway bridge at Castlegar is the beginning of swift water. At this point the Government maintains a ferry boat—the only one on the British Columbia section of the Columbia River—and by the time I reached the ferry landing the weather had become threatening. Stopping, I questioned the ferryman about a camping place and learned that just below the bridge, on the right, was a meadow where I would find a suitable place.... |
