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pages 368-369

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025gc http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,428
Title pages 368-369
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. 117,521 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: MULTNOMAH FALLS --page break-- were the only ones I could see as I passed. They are at the mouth of Multnomah Creek and reach the River in two sheer descents, the first 720 feet, the second 130 feet. I had been traveling along the Oregon shore after leaving the Cascades and below Warrendale what had been a scarcely perceptible breeze from upriver developed into a steady blow. This was the second favorable wind I had experienced since leaving the upper Columbian Lakes....

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