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pages 322-323

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026gq http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,803
Title pages 322-323
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-23
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 picture, and was ordered on to New York to report. We were both a good deal disappointed not to have a pictorial record of the "farmer" actually seeing the sea; in fact, we did some hours of "location" scouting in the hope of finding a substitute Pacific in the vicinity of Pasco. If that Beverly sand-storm had only made itself felt seventy-five miles farther down river I honestly believe we would have accomplished our worthy end. There was a pretty bit of white beach below the N. P. bridge....

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