Record Details
VIII--Hog's Back Shoal
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | VIII--Hog's Back Shoal |
| Relation | gov serial set 1676 |
| Date | 2005-08-16 to 2005-08-23 |
| 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. 325.753 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale and 48>24 RGB color tiffs edited in Photoshop CS 8.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, grayscale bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | from soundings made during an examination at the end of June of over 15 feet at average low-water for a length of scarcely 200 yards ; so that, with two daily strong flood-tides of from 6 to 01 feet, merchant-vessels drawing not over 21 or 22 feet, and waiting for the tide to serve, can safely pass the bar, which is of a quicksand formation. A little scraping can easily better it if it should ever be found necessary. Gilman's Channel, to the south of the island, has deepened very... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,2936 |
