id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 38249 Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Down the Columbia .txt text/plain 118496 5529 80 the roughly tumbling left-hand channel of Rock Island Rapids with only a pleasure boating, any attempt to run the Big Bend between those points Rapids was a real all-day and all-night sucker, but the old river hand calm open reaches of the upper river give way to really swift water. Kootenay River, and its waters did not reach the Columbia until after a With comparatively good water all the way to the head of Surprise water that was more like a lake than a river. place was below the half-mile-long third cascade, and no old river man Kinbasket Lake, just below Middle River--slack water all the way. what I knows is a ten-mile-an-hour current looks to me like slack water, quarter-mile of white riffle looked like comparatively easy running. water, and it would form a lake 150 miles long all the way to the of bedrock running half way across the river from the right bank. ./cache/38249.txt ./txt/38249.txt