Record Details
pages 248-249
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025du http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,368 |
| Title | pages 248-249 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-19 |
| 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. 103,586 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 | Grand Rapids are to be feared by the navigator as much as any other on the Columbia River. The right hand channel, as I saw it, is too rough and rock-filled for either a large or small boat to run it. The upper one-third of the left-hand channel is almost equally dangerous, but the lower two-thirds presented little that would deter an experienced riverman. The River here has considerable width. The right-hand shore is low, but the left-hand one is a bench, fully 150 feet high, with a... |
