Record Details
page 2266
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 2266 |
| Relation | gov serial set 1955 |
| Date | 2005-10-24 to 2005-10-26 |
| 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. 304.083 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 | CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LOWER WILLAMETTE AND COLUMBIA RIVERS, FROM PORTLAND, OREGON, TO THE SEA. The Columbia is first mentioned by Jonathan Carver, in 1768, as a stream rising on the western slope of the lands dividing the tributaries of the Gulf of Mexico from those of the Pacific Ocean, called the "Oregon, or River of the West," his information being obtained from Indians and traders, although Martin d'Aguilar reported to have found in 1603 a large river emptying... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3245 |
