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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

The Dalles by The Columbia River in Oregon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dalles,_Oregon

"...The Dalles /ˈdælz/ is the county seat and largest city of Wasco County, Oregon, United States. The name of the city comes from the French word dalle (meaning either "sluice" or "flagstone" and referring to the columnar basalt rocks carved by the river,[5][6] in voyageur French used to refer to rapids), which was used by the French-Canadian employees of the North West Company to refer to the rapids of the Columbia River between the present-day city and Celilo Falls. Also in the same area was the Petite Dalles or Little Dalles, or Short Narrows.