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pages 326-327

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026gs http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,805
Title pages 326-327
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 centre at the junction of the Columbia and the Snake should not be lost sight of even to-day. The lighter-hued water of the Snake was pretty well churned into the flood of the Columbia at the end of a mile, leaving a faint suggestion of cloudiness in the transparent green that the latter had preserved all the way from the Arrow Lakes. The long bridge of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway spanned the Columbia just below the Snake, and from there on paralleled the river closely right...

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