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Show I A Cataract In Labrador. V The interior of Labrador undoubtedly y Is the lurrjest unexplored ma pn this , ; continent. Up the Grand river, which i empties into the Atlantic ocean at Ham- J ill on inlet, are the Grand falls, which, if everything is true about thorn that il U ' reported, are the most stupendous falls fi in the world. They are only about 160 i 1 miles up the river, but only two white --:-J. men have ever seen them. Mr. R. F. '$ IJolino three years ago went from Eng- j land to visit the Grand fulls. He organized a little party to accom- pany hiiu iuluud, and arrived within i ' about fifty miles of the falls, when he was compelled to return on account of the failure of his provisions. The Labra-i Labra-i dor Indians say these falls are haunted, s. and they carefully avoid them, believing ? that they will die if they look upn " J them. The two white men who have ' seen them are Mr. Maclean, who, ad he was ascending the river in 18G9, was topped by the falls, and Mr. Kennedy, who over thirty years ago had charge of Hudson Bay post, in Labrador. Mr. Holme says the height of the falls is not certainly known, bnt in some respects there is littlo doubt they are the greatest in the world. Goldthwaite's Geographical Geographi-cal Magazine. |