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page 1871

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Title page 1871
Relation gov serial set 1905
Date 2005-10-05 to 2005-10-12
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 351.063 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 latter point a broad sand, called Clatsop Spit, makes out almost directly toward the cape for about 2 miles, thus reducing the available width by nearly one-half, since, though the sand is covered by from 1 to 2 fathoms, the sea breaks heavily over it in nearly all weather. About midway between the end of the spit and the cape, a little, inside of the line joining them, is a constantly shifting sand island, just now nearly 14 miles in length by from 1,000 to 1,200 feet in width....
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3216

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