Record Details
page 24
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_027c http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,517 |
| Title | page 24 |
| Relation | Report of The Chief of Engineers 1872 |
| Date | 2004-08-25 |
| 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. 261,147 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 CS: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 221, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | Defenses of the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon, 'in charge of Major Henry M. Robert, Corps of Engineers.—These defenses consist of Fort Stevens on the south side, and three detached batteries at Cape Disappointment, Washington Territory, on the north side of the entrance. They are in a very bad condition ; the entire wood-work of Fort Stevens, except the magazine, being rotten ; the revetment of the interior slopes, all round the fort, are fallen, and several traverses lying in a... |
