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pages 84-85

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026bl http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,687
Title pages 84-85
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-05
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Description waters were sufficiently above the lower southern barriers to give it drainage in that direction. At that time it was doubtless the main source of the Kootenay River, and its waters did not reach the Columbia until after a long and devious southerly course into what is now Montana, thence northward into Kootenay Lake, and finally, by a dizzy westerly plunge, into a much-extended Arrow Lake. An upheaval which carried away the dyke at Donald provided a northward drainage for the lake, and the...

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