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Cascades of the Columbia, portage — Patrick Gass: October 31, 1805
October 31, 1805
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION _ 167
our canoes and took them past the rapids, some part of the
way by water, and some over rocks 8 or 10 feet high. It was
the most fatiguing business we have been engaged in for a
long time, and we got but two over all day, the distance about
a mile, and the fall of the water about 25 feet in that distance.
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