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XII--Point Adams, Mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon

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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.
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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,...
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