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Title page 1872
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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Description vey shows an absence of certain deeper places in the shoalest portions which existed in 1876. Upon examination it will be seen that all of these changes tend to produce one chief effect. The northern extension of Sand Island, and the shoals about it, has forced the ebb into a wider detour to get out of the North Channel, which has consequently narrowed and shoaled toward its inner end. Yet we find it wider and deeper outside; hence the conclusion is necessary that more water has crossed...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3217

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