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with extraordinary swiftness. The first white man who saw 

 tliese falls, 30 years before, was a Scotchman named McLean, an 

 official of the Hndson Bay Company. No one is known to have 

 visited them since that time. IMythical stories regarding them 

 were in cii'culation, and some writers represented them to be 

 2,000 feet liigli, so that sober-minded persons began to qnestion 

 their existence. Xotliing would induce a Labrador Indian to ap- 

 proach the falls which they believe are haunted by evil spirits of 

 .extraordinary malignity, bent on the destruction of all intruders. 

 A halt-ln-eed Indian who had the temerity to approacli them, 

 told Mr. Bryant that under the ialls are witches constantly en- 

 eaued in wasliin"-, and that he saw their long white arms and 

 streaming hair as they tried to grasp and drag him into the 

 foaming al)yss. G(jld he said \\'ould not induce him to go near 

 tliem a second time. Ordinary touiists are not likely to visit the 

 C4rand Falls till a more practicable route is opened. A party 

 lead l.iy officials of the Canadian Geological Sui'vey crossed Lab- 

 rador last winter coming out at Hudson's Bay, and this summer 

 tliey are traversing the great peninsula in another direction and 

 will visit the Graml Falls. They found the country far better 

 timbei-ed than was ])reviously believed, and much richer in 

 animal life, especially reindeer. 



It may Ije mentioned that Mr. Bryant, the discoverer of the 

 ■Clrand Falls, is now engaged in Arctic Avork, in connection with 

 IVary's Greenland Expedition. He left St. .lohn's on July 7th, 

 1S94, in the steamer Falcon, as leader of the Peary Auxiliary 

 Expedition, to bring home Peary and Ids party. He had it in 

 view to spend a month in exploring and charting 350 miles of 

 unknown coast in Jones's Sound jirevious to the return of the 

 •Greenland Exp^'ditinn. 



KXCUltSIONS BY RAILWAY. 



St. John's to Harl)our C^race : distance, 83^ miles ; time, five 

 hours. First class fare, 8^.50 ; second class, $!1.70 ; one through 

 train daily. During the smnmer montlis the regular daily train 

 leaves St. John's at 10 a. m. and Harl)our (irace at 11 a. m. There 



