What is "multnomah"

Usage examples of "multnomah".

A group of islands near the mouth of the Multnomah hides it from the view of the passing voyager.

Convinced that a considerable river must drain the region to the south, Captain Clark went back alone and penetrating the intricate channels among the islands, found the mouth of the Multnomah, now better known as the Willamette.

Go to the Multnomah County Courthouse, downtown, at SW Fourth Avenue and Main Street.

Early morning joggers and late-evening walkers also report almost identical encounters with a naked Multnomah youth.

It appeared that this river, which they call Multnomah, discharged itself behind the island we call the Image Canoe Island, and as we had left this island to the south in descending and ascending the river we had never seen it.

At the distance of thirteen miles below the last village and at the place I had supposed was the lower point of Image Canoe Island, I entered this river which the natives had informed us of, called Multnomah River, so called by the natives from a nation who reside on Wappetoe Island a little below the entrance of this river.

I prevailed on an old Indian to mark the Multnomah River down on the sand, which he did, and it perfectly corresponded with the sketch given me by sundry others, with the addition of a circular mountain which passes this river at the falls and connects with the mountains of the seacoast.

Jefferson we can plainly see from the entrance of Multnomah, from which place it bears S.

I am grateful, nonetheless, to the citizens of the city of Portland, and the country of Multnomah, Oregon, whose taxes support the Multnomah County Library, without whose reference materials this book would not have been written.

After talking with the Oregon State Bar, a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge, and several attorneys, Birmingham deduced that he was not required ethically or legally to turn the cuffs and stun gun over to the prosecution, given the posture of the case at the time.

The exact cause of the deaths will not be confirmed until the completion of post-mortem examinations by the Multnomah County Medical Examiner.

A number of the men, also, under the command of some of the clerks, were sent to quarter themselves on the banks of the Wollamut (the Multnomah of Lewis and Clarke) , a fine river which disembogues itself into the Columbia, about sixty miles above Astoria.