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pages 28-29

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026ad http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,626
Title pages 28-29
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-04
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description to save this situation. On the veranda of the country club there was a fine mounted specimen of Ovis Canadensis, the Canadian mountain sheep. By proper ballasting, I pointed out to Roos, this fine animal could be made to submerge to a natural swimming depth — say with the head and shoulders just above the water. Then a little Evinrude engine could be clamped to its hind quarters and set going. Forthwith the whole thing must start off ploughing across the lake just like a live mountain...

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