Record Details
page 446
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025hp http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,452 |
| Title | page 446 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-26 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 61,666 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 | certainly due the credit of making the first continuous journey, and this by himself, over the whole surface of the Columbia river. To give some idea of what this means, it is only necessary to say that in it he shot 107 rapids, 35 in Canada and 72 in the United States. Many of these are known to travelers as being the most dangerous in river navigation on the continent of America. In these may be cited our own Surprise Rapids, the Death Rapids north of Revelstoke, and others less famous.... |
