Record Details
pages 336-337
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025fm http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,412 |
| Title | pages 336-337 |
| 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. |
| 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. 93,627 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: MOUNT HOOD FROM MOUTH OF HOOD RIVER --page break-- Samuel Bowles in his book, Across the Continent, thus describes Mount Hood: "But no mountain peak we have yet passed in our journey is seen to so fine advantage as Mount Hood from the Columbia River. It is hard to imagine a more magnificent snow mountain and adding a crowning element to the scenery of the Columbia River." Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, pens this tribute: "Then clouds blew in, and all the sky was... |
