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pages 274-275

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025eh http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,381
Title pages 274-275
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-19
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Description first but the swirl of the eddy was too strong to make headway backing water through it and I was compelled to turn and row bow forward to make downstream progress. The eddy was harmless and the head of the left-hand channel, which is the only runnable one, was soon reached. Here, the position of the boat was again reversed, and stern first I shot down the swift current directly toward the perpendicular cliff, not to dash against it, for that was not the intention. When a hundred feet away I...

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