The Labrador Peninsula 



them within a few days of each other. To 

 Austin Gary and D. M. Cole,* of the Bowdoin 

 College expedition, fell the honor of first 

 arrival. Unfortunately they burnt their boat 

 and outfit, and were obliged to tramp and raft 

 down stream 250 miles to the mouth of the 

 river. On their way down they passed unseen 

 Henry G. Bryantt and C. A. Kenaston, who 

 were on their way up. These latter made a 

 careful determination of the falls, finding the 

 drop to be slightly over 300 feet, and thus 

 shattered the belief in another of the marvel- 

 ous wonders of unknown Labrador. 



In 1892 I was sent to explore the East Main 

 River, which flows westward, close to the fifty- 

 second parallel, into Hudson Bay, to deter- 

 mine its suitability for a natural boundary 

 between the Province of Quebec and the 

 northern territories of the Dominion. I as- 

 cended the Ashouapmouchouan River from 

 Lake St. John to the Height of Land, passed 

 through Lake Mislaosiori and proceeded north- 

 ward about 100 miles to the East Main River, 

 and followed it downward some 300 miles to 



*BulL Am. Geog. Soc., Vol. XXIV. 



fA Journey to the Grand Falls of Labrador. Geog. Club, 

 Philadelphia. 



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