Record Details
pages 262-263
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025eb http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,375 |
| Title | pages 262-263 |
| 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. 131,07 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 | was a skiff tied to the shore immediately opposite, and I was welcome to use her. Going to the place indicated, I found the skiff, and although there were oars aboard, the rowlocks were missing—evidently hidden. It was a half-mile upstream to the COLUMBIA, the current was swift, and it took an hour of poling, wading, and paddling to make the distance. Instead of trying to lasso the COLUMBIA, I made the forty-foot lariat fast to the painter of the skiff and secured the other end to the shore... |
