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pages 66-image

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026az http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,678
Title pages 66-image
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 lake. They varied in size from almost totally submerged chunks a few feet in diameter to huge floating islands of several hundred. They were of the most fantastic shapes, especially those which had been longest adrift and therefore most exposed to the capricious action of the sun. By and large, the effect was that of a Gargantuan bowl sprinkled with puffy white popcorn. But if one took his time and searched carefully enough there were very few things of heaven or earth that were not...

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