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pages 154-155

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026cw http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,709
Title pages 154-155
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-09
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Description ter—provided the boat could be kept to it. Blackmore said that it looked like too much of a risk, and decided to try to line down the right bank—the one on which we had landed. As the river walls were too steep and broken to allow any of the outfit to be portaged, the boat would have to go through loaded. A big up-rooted pine tree, extending out fifty feet over the river and with its under limbs swept by the water, seemed likely to prove our worst difficulty, and I am inclined to believe...

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