Record Details
pages 368-369
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_026ho http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,829 |
| Title | pages 368-369 |
| Relation | Down The Columbia |
| Date | 2004-08-24 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 144,615 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 249, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | Of all the sinister landscapes I ever saw—including the lava fields of a good many volcanoes and a number of the world's most repulsive "bad lands"—that which opened up to me as I tried to head in beyond that hard-striven-for point stands alone in my memory for sheer awesomeness. The early winter twilight had already begun to settle upon the gloomy gorge, the duskiness greatly accentuating the all-pervading murk cast upon the river by the pall of the sooty clouds. All round loomed walls... |
