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pages 22-23

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026aa http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,623
Title pages 22-23
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-04
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Description glacial ice, there to do a right-about and start upon my long-dreamed-of journey from snow-flake to brine. It is a dozen years or more since one could travel the hundred miles of the Columbia between Golden and Lake Windermere by steamer. The comparatively sparse population in this rich but thinly settled region was not sufficient to support both rail and river transport, and with the coming of the former the latter could not long be maintained. Two or three rotting hulks on the mud by the...

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