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pages 318-319

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026go http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,801
Title pages 318-319
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-17
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Description to a luminous blur behind the pall of the sand-filled air, and the wind, which headed us every now and then, about neutralized the impulse of the acceleraing current. There was a forty-miles-an-hour sandstorm blowing when we beached the boat under the railway bridge at four-thirty. The brilliantly golden-yellow cars of the C. M. & St. P. Limited rumbling across above behind their electric locomotive seemed strangely out-of-place in the desolate landscape. The one sidewalk of the town's...

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