Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | IX--Astoria Sand-Flats, Columbia River |
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. 332.998 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 | cal year. Owing to the great extent of the " Hog's Back" Shoals, which spread out to about ten miles in width at the broadest part between the shore-lines, there is no perceptible rise in the river at this locality ; but the forces of the currents are in consequence of the freshets greatly strengthened, and these, aided by unusually strong ebb-tides, may wash out an entirely new channel. A careful examination after the waters of the upper river commence to recede can alone disclose any... |
Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,2940 |