Record Details
pages 278-279
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025ej http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,383 |
| Title | pages 278-279 |
| 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. 97,599 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 | Long Rapids have an exceedingly swift current and a length of about a mile, terminating at the head of Box Cañon in an eddy. As the channel is free of rocks, there are no dashing breakers to be feared, only the fairly smooth, swiftly gliding current. In the morning, to be sure, there would be a place to land before entering Box Canon, and knowing that the descent of Long Rapids would be like shooting a toboggan, I walked down the shore to where the eddy could be "sized up," selected a safe... |
