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Dalles   Listen
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Dalles  n. pl.  A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls. (Northwestern U. S. & Canada) "The place below, where the compressed river wound like a silver thread among the flat black rocks, was the far-famed Dalles of the Columbia."





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"Dalles" Quotes from Famous Books



... Vancouver, upon the lower Columbia, for the return trip, the party ascended the river to The Dalles and then turned southward along the eastern side of the Cascade Range. They soon entered upon a region never before traversed by white men. At the time when autumn was giving place to winter, without reliable guides ...
— The Western United States - A Geographical Reader • Harold Wellman Fairbanks
... Ibid. p. 513: "Les figures semblent avoir ete taillees non dans des blocs prismatiques, mais dans de la pierre debitee en carriere, sous forme de dalles epaisses."] ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson


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