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Title page 215
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 305.373 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 famous is the Grand Coulee with its dry falls, plunge-basin lakes, and channeled scablands. Similar features of lesser grandeur are common throughout the area. The Grand Coulee is significant in that it provides a long channel through higher plateaus by way of which water will be conducted from pumping plants on the Columbia River for the irrigation of more than a million acres of dry land in the Columbia Basin project at the southern end of the Coulee. Surface Waters The flow of the...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1704

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