Record Details
X--Survey of Sand Island, Mouth of the Columbia River
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | X--Survey of Sand Island, Mouth of the 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. 338.334 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 | X.—SURVEY OF SAND ISLAND, MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER. The annual survey of this island was made on the 4th and 5th of December, 1874, to ascertain the changes in its outlines, caused by the terrific gales from the southwest which swept along the North Pacific coast on the 23d and 24th of the previous month. The tides, which at the time were unusually high, united with the tempest in creating tremendously heavy seas, the waves being lashed into a violent fury-. The entire island was... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,2944 |
