Record Details
page 1342
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 1342 |
| Relation | gov serial set 1845 |
| Date | 2005-09-20 to 2005-09-27 |
| 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. 348.894 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 | The navigation of the Lower Willamette and the Columbia Rivers from Portland to the sea is therefore free to the commerce of the world. From the mouth of the Willamette to the Lower Cascades of the Columbia River, a distance of about 53 miles, there is a depth of at least 10 feet of water at the lowest stage of the river. At this point the navigation of the Columbia River is interrupted by the Cascades for a distance of about 6 miles. It is to overcome this impediment to navigation that the... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3156 |
