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pages 396-397

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025gq http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,442
Title pages 396-397
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-22
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Description his book entitled, The Columbia River, that, "It would be possible to descend almost the entire length of the River in a small boat." The COLUMBIA, now at the goal visioned from Canal Flat was, with the aid of some railroad section men, withdrawn from the embrace of the stream she had battled so successfully, and whose name she had appropriated, and lifted over the sea-wall was safely set on timbers in front of the tent. The ten miles of River still remaining to the Pacific Ocean I expected...

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