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pages 286-287

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025en http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,387
Title pages 286-287
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.
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 98,534 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 it from Wenatchee and continues northward, up the Okanogan River, and across the Border into British Columbia. Opposite to Brewster the Columbia is over a mile wide but is filled with several large, low sandbars. At this point, the River meets an obstruction to the westward course it has been following the Buckhorn Mountains-and begins its southward trend around the Great Bend. As a result of the change of direction a ninety-degree elbow has been formed, and in this elbow the joint action of...

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