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pages 170-171

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026dg http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,717
Title pages 170-171
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-10
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Description hard breaking through the wet underbrush to recover it. The river was still rising from the rains, and the current swift with occasional rapids. Blackmore approached the head of Gordon Rapids (named, of course, from a man of that name who had lost his life there) with considerable caution. He intended to run them, he said, but the convergence of currents threw a nasty cross-riffle that was not to be taken liberties with. He appeared considerably relieved when he found that the high water made...

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