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pages 280-281

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026ft http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,780
Title pages 280-281
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-16
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description only a luminous lilac mist floating above the southwestern mountains to mark where the sun had set; but it was enough—just enough—to throw a glow of pale amethyst on the frothy tops of the white-caps, leaving the untorn water to roll on in fluid anthracite. Earl barely eased her at the head, and then plunged her down a path of polished ebony, with the blank blur of rocks looming close on the right and an apparitional line of half-guessed rollers booming boisterously to the left. For...

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