Record Details
pages 258-259
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025dz http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,373 |
| Title | pages 258-259 |
| 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. 131,998 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 | with sudden fury, the air was filled with flying sand, and the surface of the River was almost instantly whipped into whitecaps. I could make absolutely no progress downstream, rowing was of no avail, and if I ceased the effort, in spite of the swift current the boat would go upstream. I looked for a place to land on the right shore, but everywhere it was too rocky and precipitous. The River was about five hundred feet wide, and the left shore was a sloping, gravel beach about two hundred... |
