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pages 418-419

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025hb http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,454
Title pages 418-419
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.
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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. 127,037 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 of the male changes to various shades of black or red, the sockeye becoming a bright red. The lower jaw of the male elongates until it is projecting, both jaws become hooked, the front teeth get very long and canine-like, sometimes so much so that the mouth cannot be closed and producing a wolfish appearance. As the body thins, the shoulders thicken into a pronounced hump, which is more noticeable in the pink salmon than in any other. After spawning the salmon become known as "kelts," many...

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