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pages 160-161

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026da http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,712
Title pages 160-161
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-10
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Description CHAPTER VIII
III. RUNNING THE BEND Boat Encampment to Revelstoke WE were now close to the historic Boat Encampment, where at last our course would join with that followed by the early voyageurs and explorers. No point in the whole length of the Columbia, not even Astoria, has associations more calculated to stir the imagination than this tiny patch of silt-covered overflow flat which has been formed by the erosive action of three torrential rivers tearing at the hearts of three great...

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