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pages 340-341

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025fo http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,414
Title pages 340-341
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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Description Image Caption: CELILO FALLS --page break-- channels, and in one place a single channel about 175 feet wide carries the whole volume of the River's flow. The walls of the gorges thus formed are about 25 or 30 feet high, and between them the water boils, surges, and whirls with tremendous power. The River above the Falls has a general width of about a half-mile and the sudden contraction below acts as a partial dam at the time of floods and raises the water level above until the drop at the...

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