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pages 358-359

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025fx http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,423
Title pages 358-359
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-20
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Description Image Caption: THE TOW-WALLED GORGE BELOW CASCADE LOCKS --page break-- a distance of five miles there are three rapids known as the Upper Cascades, a mile long; the Middle Cascades', a third of a mile long; and the Lower Cascades, a half-mile long, the last being located at the backbone of the Cascade Range. The two lower rapids were not serious at the time I ran them; but the upper one, from what I could see from the Oregon shore, was a vicious, tumbling mass of froth-crested water. The...

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