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pages 290-291

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025ep http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,389
Title pages 290-291
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-20
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Description Image Caption: BEGINNING OF BASALT BLUFFS BELOW WENATCHEE --page break-- Three and a half miles farther along I reached the crossing of the main line of the Great Northern Railway. At a very contracted place in the River, natural rock abutments were found on both shores and a three-span bridge, 874 feet long now unites the rocky walls. The middle span has a length of 416 feet and the whole volume of the Columbia, a quarter mile wide above, passes through the middle span. I approached the...

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