Pleasant Grove Review | 1951-09-21 | Page 7 | Number Two Waterfall is Viewed by Few

Number Two Waterfall Is Viewed By Few In a single massive spout, North America's second largest waterfall water-fall plunges from the lip of the Labrador Plateau. Only Niagara surpasses it in volume. Yet few people have ever seen it. Its name: Grand Falls of the Hamilton Hamil-ton River. National Geographic Society staff writers Andrew Brown and Ralph Gray, with Labrador trappers trap-pers John and Leslie Michelin as guides, paddled nearly 600 miles last summer through northern Canada's wilderness lakes rivers and rapids in reaching Grand Falls. Rolling toward the sea the Hamilton Ham-ilton River, fed by Labrador's maze of lakes, hurtles downgrade 1,038 feet in 16 miles one of the most tumultuous descents of any major river on earth. In rapids just above Grand Falls the river drops 219 feet. It then falls, clear for 245 feet, turns sharp left into Bowdoin Canyon, and cascades through the boiling gorge another 574 feet. Ten miles away as the crow flies (but about 200 by canoe) are the quadruple Unknown Falls along Unknown River, a tributary of the Hamilton.