Record Details
XII--Point Adams, Mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | XII--Point Adams, Mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon |
| 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. 329.44 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 the same pamphlet another quotation is made, originally taken from the Commercial Herald, 21st of May, 1874, which reads as follows In the case of the Columbia River Bar there can be no room for doubt. The number of casualties that have occurred there is fewer than that of any other barred river known to commerce. Prior to 1852 there was no tonnage of note passing in and out of that river; but since that time the number of vessels crossing that bar has been 10,500, of which only eight,... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,2946 |
