Record Details
page 2322
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 2322 |
| 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. 377.664 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 | Cape Hancock light-house and the flag-staff at Fort Stevens was used as a Use-line, a distance of 10,073.8 meters according to the United States Coast Survey of 1568. The work of triangulation was completed on the 24th of August, and sounding commenced on the morning of the 25th. Whenever the weather and the favorable condition of the bar permitted, soundings were made as rapidly as possible outside : the inside soundings were made when it was found impossible to work with any accuracy on... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3306 |
