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pages 138-139

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026co http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,701
Title pages 138-139
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-09
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 registering "unbounded wonderment," but the light was never right for it up to the morning of our departure, and then there wasn't time. It rained and snowed all that night and most of the following day. During the afternoon of the latter the clouds broke up twice or thrice, and through rifts in the drifting wracks we had transient glimpses of the peaks and glaciers of the Selkirks gleaming above the precipitous western walls of the lake. The most conspicuous feature of the sky-line was the...

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