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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 769 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DALLE (pronounced " dal," Fr. for a flag-stone or flat tile)  , a rapid falling over flat smooth rock surfaces in a
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river bed, especially in rivers flowing between basaltic rocks . The name is
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common in
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America, and came into use through the French employes of the Hudson's
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Bay
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Company . Well-known "dalles" are on the St Louis, St Croix and Wisconsin rivers . The " dalles " of the
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Columbia river are very beautiful, and have given its name to Dalles (1910 pop . 4880), county-seat of Wasco county,
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Oregon .

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