Discovery of a great Waterfall in Labrador.

Manawatu Herald, 1 December 1894, Page 2

Discovery of a great Waterfall in Labrador.

A waterfall, said to be larger than Niagara, has been discovered in the wilds of Labrador by Messrs Low* and Eaton, of the Canadian Geological Survey, who have jtisfc returned to Ottawa after fourteen months of adventurous travel in the unexplored interior of that country Accompanied by Indian guides, they started from the Hamilton Inlet on the Atlantic coast, and went up the Hamilton river, on which the Grand Falls were found. The explorers had heard from the natives wonderful stories of the magnitude and grandeur of the falls*- ajacL naturally did not expect to find theni half so big as they were . reported. They had a surprise when they reached "* the falls, on May 2 of this year. The falls, they say, simply astounded j them. Mr Low declares that " with-' ' out doubt they throw Niagara into? * the shade, and surpass anything^ in > America, and perhaps in the w6rld." The Hamilton runs off a tableland into a valley. Firdt of all the water descends about 200 ft in rapids and shoots ; then come the Grand Palls, with a sheer drop of 300ft';f*theo«4btfS river shoots away again over rapids, sinking another 300 ft in a distance of about five miles. The vaHey' below the falls is from half -a- mile to two miles in width, with walls from 500 to 1000 ft .high. Eiu'ther-^^ay the gorge contracts in some pl^sei to the narrow width of lnmy*~yaras, the boiling and struggling water in which forms a dazzling sight to look down upon. The embankments are almost perpendicular ; in fact, there are points where ' the wouldrbe-f observer has to sling himself by a tree and crane his neck in order fio see the water at all.