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pages 408-409

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025gw http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,448
Title pages 408-409
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-22
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Description there to the Upper Cascades the width is very variable—often a mile or more, where there are islands. Above the White Bluffs islands are of infrequent occurrence, but from there they are numerous all the way to Tongue Point, varying in character from little, rocky islets to great blocks of basalt, large, level areas well above high water, marshy slough and lake-filled expanses, and low tide-flats. The contraction of the River through the backbone of the Cascade Range to a quarter-mile has...

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