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pages 316-317

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025fc http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,402
Title pages 316-317
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. 127,741 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 Island Rapids, where they become plateaus 500 to 600 feet high. These mountains are lower than those west of the River rising about 1,500 feet above the stream at their northern and southern end, but dwindling, midway, into plateaus about 500 feet high. Below Rock Island Rapids the slopes from the Frenchman Hills terminate as plateaus of the same height as the others, but the Columbia only skirts their bases in places, and there is much low land from a half to a mile wide, bordering the...

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