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Identifier ORU_WTXT_027n http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,529
Title page 994
Relation Report of The Chief of Engineers 1872
Date 2004-08-26
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Description gree of accuracy than I had expected. Soundings, when taken in a strong current, are liable to much error from the difficulty of getting a perpendicular reading; I wait, therefore, gratified to find the depths taken when the reduction vas it feet, and a combination of unfavorable circumstances gave the same results as those when the river was 5 feet lower, with more favorable weather. Having ascertained the nature and extent of he bar, and the points at which it might be desirable to...

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