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pages 330-331

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026gu http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,807
Title pages 330-331
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-23
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Description was the delay and uncertainty sure to be attendant upon lining that was the principal factor in deciding me to try the latter course. Also, I knew that there was an open channel all the way through, and that the rapid was a comparatively broad and shallow one, rather than constricted and deep. This meant that it would be straight white water—a succession of broken waves—I was going into, rather than heavy swirls and whirlpools ; just the water in which the skiff had already proved she was...

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