Record Details
pages 164-165
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_026dc http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,714 |
| Title | pages 164-165 |
| Relation | Down The Columbia |
| Date | 2004-08-10 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 143,740 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 249, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | mometer at Kinbasket Lake, so I could not take the temperatures here; but Wood River was beyond all doubt the coldest stream I had ever dabbled a fingertip in. What the ascent to Athabaska Pass must have been may be judged from this description by Alexander Ross—one of the original Astoria party—written over a hundred years ago. "Picture in the mind a dark, narrow defile, skirted on one side by a chain of inaccessible mount tins rising to a great height, covered with snow, and slippery... |
