Record Details
Field | Value |
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Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025gu http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,446 |
Title | pages 404-405 |
Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
Date | 2004-07-22 |
Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
Type | page |
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Description | Walla Walla River; and the third was the Cascade Range. At the Saddle Mountains the hills adjacent to the River rise practically 1,000 feet above it, and through them a gap a mile wide, with sloping sides, has been made, of which the Columbia occupies but about 800 feet. A natural cleft may have existed here through which the waters of the lake found an outlet; but from the greater elevation of the mountains farther away, and the trend of the slopes, the indications are that a narrow neck... |