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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026fo http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,784
Title pages image-271
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-16
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Description Image captions: NIGHT WAS FALLING AS WE HEADED INTO BOX CANYON (above)
THE COLUMBIA ABOVE BOX CANYON (below) --page break-- The rock-littered channel of Moneghan's or Buckley's Rapids was easily threaded by the launch, and Equilibrium or "Jumbo" Rapids, three miles lower down, did not prove a serious obstruction. The official name is the former, and was given the riffle by Symons on account of a round-topped rock which rolled back and forth in the current because of its unstable...

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