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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026de http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,716
Title pages 168-image
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-10
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Description of the Selkirks were considerably more extensive than the eastern, the drainage to the Columbia from that side was proportionately greater. Cascades and cataracts came tumbling in every few hundred yards, and every mile or two, from one side or the other, a considerable creek would pour down over its spreading boulder "fan." We landed at twelve-thirty and cooked our lunch on the stove of a perfect beauty of a trapper's cabin near the mouth of Mica Creek. The trapper had already begun...

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