NIAGARA ECLIPSED.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12403, 19 November 1908, Page 1

NIAGARA ECLIPSED.

I — *- — Two Americans, Eugene Delano, of Chicago, and George Washburn, of Philadelphia, have just returned to ,St John's, Newfoundland, after a , visit to the famous giand falls in •; Labrador (says the . "Standard.") j The existence of these were discover- '; ed in 1859 by one Duncan McLean, a factor in the employ of the Hudson Bay Company, who was crossing this vast solitude in the winter from j Hudson Bay to Labrador, and came i upon the_ stupenduous cataract, far j greater in width and depth than i that of Niagara. McLean's account ! of his discovery remained almost un- • noticed in th,> journals of tlio Hudson I Bay Company until 1890, when some J researches through the records dis- , closed the fact, and it was announc-. j ed to the world that such a cafe- ' aract existed in the Labrador hinj torland. Its existence, it is true, • was known to the Indians of that - region, but none of them would look upon it because of traditions that any one who did so would die within a year. The falls He inland 300 j miles from the head of Hamilton Inlet, on the Labrador coast. This inlet stretches 145 miles back through the country from the outer seaboard being navigable for steamers. Thence the canoe is the mode of progress, and very difficult it is. owinc to the tortuous course of the Hamilton river, and the' many portarrrs that have to bo taken through the rapids with which the stream is frequently obstructed. The party wore ten weeks in all making the trin. The width of the falls is about 2500 ft, 'and the depth 1300 ft, and the rush of waters extends for many miles through deep canyons, which narrow as the enormous volume of water is poured out over the precipice. The roar of the cascade can be heard " more than twenty miles away, and the site is constantly overcast by mist which rises from the convulsion of the waters below. Only on tlio vary finest days does the' sun dispel this sufficiently to allow photographs to be made. M.