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pages 162-163

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026db http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,713
Title pages 162-163
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-10
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Description west, Portage River, flowing to the Columbia ; the other has its outlet to the east, Whirlpool River, a branch of the Athabaska, which joins the Mackenzie and flows to the Arctic Ocean. "The elevated valley in which these lakes are situated is called `The Committee's Punchbowl,' and the nabobs of the fur trade always treated their companions to a bucket of punch when this point was reached, if they had the ingredients from which to make it, and they usually had. "The pass across the...

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