Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | page 479 |
Relation | 1413 |
Date | 2004-12-15 to 2004-12-29 |
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. 281.825 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale 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, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
Description | the operation of dredging is greatly retarded by the presence of innumerable snags, one of which (recently excavated) measured six feet in diameter by forty feet in length. The time occupied in removing one of these snags would be sufficient to excavate upwards of one thousand cubic yards of sand; it also causes an additional expense by incurring numerous breaks in the machinery of the dredger, which, were it not fur the snags, would probably not occur. From the fact that these snags are at... |
Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1129 |