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pages 300-301

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025eu http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,394
Title pages 300-301
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-20
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. 96,533 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 Image Caption: GAUQUIL RAPIDS --page break-- of Beverly is a half-mile east of the River. It is a small, dreary place, with streets and sidewalks covered with wind-driven sand. On the front porch of the most pretentious residence the housewife was doing the week's washing. A mile and a half below Beverly are the Saddle Mountains, 1,800 feet high, which the Columbia cuts at right angles. The River is here but 800 feet wide, but while it laves the steep slopes on the left, on the right they...

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