The Biggest Waterfall.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 17, 23 April 1913, Page 57

The Biggest Waterfall.

Which is “the world’s greatest waterfall”? Dr. Percy Rendell, in London last month’ claimed the title for the Kaieteur Fall, in British Guiana, which Jias a drop of 822 feet—five times the height of Niagara and twice that of Victoria Falls. Sir Henry Barclay, however, claims the primacy for the New Zealand cataract, which descends 1,200 feet, although it has a break in the middle. Then there are the falls in the Yosemite Valley, with drops varying from 1,700 to 2,200 feet. But simple height is perhaps an obsolete standard, now that the industrial value of waterpower is coming so prominently into notice. Niagara produces 1*200,000 horsepower, and Kaieteur 1,264,864. But Mr Beckles Wilson’s new book on Quebec tells us that the Grand Falls of Hamilton River, in the northern territory of that Province, are estimated to produce no less than 0,000,000 horse-power! We must evidently have a code of rules for deciding the Waterfall Championship.